Author:
Gao Ya,de Waard Jasper,Theeuwes Jan
Abstract
AbstractWhere and what we attend is very much determined by what we have encountered in the past. Recent studies have shown that people learn to extract statistical regularities in the environment resulting in attentional suppression of locations that were likely to contain a distractor, effectively reducing the amount of attentional capture. Here, we asked whether this suppression effect due to statistical learning is dependent on the specific configuration within which it was learned. The current study employed the additional singleton paradigm using search arrays that had a configuration consisting of set sizes of either four or 10 items. Each configuration contained its own high probability distractor location. If learning would generalize across set size configurations, both high probability locations would be suppressed equally, regardless of set size. However, if learning to suppress is dependent on the configuration within which it was learned, one would expect only suppression of the high probability location that matched the configuration within which it was learned. The results show the latter, suggesting that implicitly learned suppression is configuration-dependent. Thus, we conclude that the high probability location is learned within the configuration context within which it is presented.
Funder
H2020 European Research Council
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Sensory Systems,Language and Linguistics,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
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