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Zellin, Martina, Conci, Markus, von Mühlenen, Adrian and Müller, Hermann J. (2011) Two (or three) is one too many : testing the flexibility of contextual cueing with multiple target locations. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, Vol.73 (No.7). pp. 2065-2076. doi:10.3758/s13414-011-0175-x ISSN 1943-3921.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-011-0175-x
Abstract
Visual search for a target object is facilitated when the object is repeatedly presented within an invariant context of surrounding items ("contextual cueing"; Chun & Jiang, Cognitive Psychology, 36, 28-71, 1998). The present study investigated whether such invariant contexts can cue more than one target location. In a series of three experiments, we showed that contextual cueing is significantly reduced when invariant contexts are paired with two rather than one possible target location, whereas no contextual cueing occurs with three distinct target locations. Closer data inspection revealed that one "dominant" target always exhibited substantially more contextual cueing than did the other, "minor" target(s), which caused negative contextual-cueing effects. However, minor targets could benefit from the invariant context when they were spatially close to the dominant target. In sum, our experiments suggest that contextual cueing can guide visual attention to a spatially limited region of the display, only enhancing the detection of targets presented inside that region.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Vision -- Psychological aspects, Context effects (Psychology) | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics | ||||
Publisher: | Springer | ||||
ISSN: | 1943-3921 | ||||
Official Date: | October 2011 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.73 | ||||
Number: | No.7 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 2065-2076 | ||||
DOI: | 10.3758/s13414-011-0175-x | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 17 December 2015 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 17 December 2015 | ||||
Funder: | Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), CoTeSys Excellence Cluster | ||||
Grant number: | FOR 480 (DFG), 142 (CEC) |
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