Learning to suppress a distractor may not be unconscious.

ABSTRACT: The additional singleton task has become a popular paradigm to explore visual statistical learning and selective attention. In this task, participants are instructed to find a different-shaped target among a series of distractors as fast as possible. In some trials, the search display includes a singleton distractor with a different color, making search more difficult. This singleton distractor appears more often in one location than in the remaining locations. The typical results of these experiments show that participants learn to ignore the area of the screen that is more likely to contain the singleton distractor. It is often claimed that this learning takes place unconsciously, because at the end of the experiment participants seem to be unable to identify the location where the singl

SUBMITTER: Vicente-Conesa F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10066157 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature