Implicit short- and long-term memory direct our gaze in visual search.

ABSTRACT: Visual attention is strongly affected by the past: both by recent experience and by long-term regularities in the environment that are encoded in and retrieved from memory. In visual search, intertrial repetition of targets causes speeded response times (short-term priming). Similarly, targets that are presented more often than others may facilitate search, even long after it is no longer present (long-term priming). In this study, we investigate whether such short-term priming and long-term priming depend on dissociable mechanisms. By recording eye movements while participants searched for one of two conjunction targets, we explored at what stages of visual search different forms of priming manifest. We found both long- and short- term priming effects. Long-term priming persisted long aft

SUBMITTER: Kruijne W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4819550 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature