What is the Role of Spatial Attention in Statistical Learning During Visual Search?

ABSTRACT: Our ability to learn the regularities embedded in our environment is a fundamental aspect of our cognitive system. Does such statistical learning depend on attention? Research on this topic is scarce and has yielded mixed findings. In this preregistered study, we examined the role of spatial attention in statistical learning, and specifically in learned distractor-location suppression. This phenomenon refers to the finding that during visual search, participants are better at ignoring a salient distractor at a high-probability location than at low-probability locations - a bias persisting long after the probability imbalance has ceased. Participants searched for a shape-singleton target and a color-singleton distractor was sometimes present. During the learning phase, the color-singleton d

SUBMITTER: Golan A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11243762 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature