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ERIC Number: EJ734762
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2005-Aug
Pages: 10
Abstractor: Author
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ISSN: ISSN-0096-1523
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Intertrial Temporal Contextual Cuing: Association across Successive Visual Search Trials Guides Spatial Attention
Ono, Fuminori; Jiang, Yuhong; Kawahara, Jun-ichiro
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, v31 n4 p703-712 Aug 2005
Contextual cuing refers to the facilitation of performance in visual search due to the repetition of the same displays. Whereas previous studies have focused on contextual cuing within single-search trials, this study tested whether 1 trial facilitates visual search of the next trial. Participants searched for a T among Ls. In the training phase, the spatial layout on trial N=1 was predictive of the target location on trial N. In the testing phase, the predictive value was removed. Results revealed an intertrial temporal contextual cuing effect: Search speed became progressively shorter in the training phase, but it significantly lengthened during testing. The authors conclude that the visual system is capable of retaining spatial contextual memory established earlier to facilitate perception.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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