Rapid Acquisition but Slow Extinction of an Attentional Bias in Space

Autor/inn/en	Jiang, Yuhong V.; Swallow, Khena M.; Rosenbaum, Gail M.; Herzig, Chelsey
Titel	Rapid Acquisition but Slow Extinction of an Attentional Bias in Space
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 39 (2013) 1, S.87-99 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0096-1523
DOI	10.1037/a0027611
Schlagwörter	Attention; Bias; Spatial Ability; Experience; Learning Processes; Incidental Learning; Visual Perception; Priming; Reaction Time; College Students; Minnesota + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Aufmerksamkeit; Räumliches Vorstellungsvermögen; Erfahrung; Learning process; Lernprozess; Inzidentelles Lernen; Visuelle Wahrnehmung; Reaktionsvermögen; Collegestudent
Abstract	Substantial research has focused on the allocation of spatial attention based on goals or perceptual salience. In everyday life, however, people also direct attention using their previous experience. Here we investigate the pace at which people incidentally learn to prioritize specific locations. Participants searched for a T among Ls in a visual search task. Unbeknownst to them, the target was more often located in one region of the screen than in other regions. An attentional bias toward the rich region developed over dozens of trials. However, the bias did not rapidly readjust to new contexts. It persisted for at least a week and for hundreds of trials after the target's position became evenly distributed. The persistence of the bias did not reflect a long window over which visual statistics were calculated. Long-term persistence differentiates incidentally learned attentional biases from the more flexible goal-driven attention. (Contains 7 figures, 4 tables and 1 footnote.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10