Withstand Context: Standing Posture Improves Contextual Cueing in Challenging Visual Search.

ABSTRACT: Humans can learn to use repeated spatial arrangements of irrelevant, non-target items to direct the focus of attention towards behaviorally relevant-target-items, a phenomenon known as contextual cueing (CC). However, whether CC is itself dependent on attentional resources is a controversial issue. Here, we used visual search to test how CC is affected when attention varies through two types of manipulations: perceptual load (as induced by target-distractor similarity) and postural load (sitting vs. standing). For easy searches (low target-distractor similarity), we observed reliable facilitation of search in repeated-context displays, which was independent of participants' body posture. For difficult searches (high target-distractor similarity), contextual facilitation was evident only wi

SUBMITTER: Zinchenko A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12272028 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature