Statistical learning of target selection and distractor suppression shape attentional priority according to different timeframes.

ABSTRACT: Recent findings suggest that attentional and oculomotor control is heavily affected by past experience, giving rise to selection and suppression history effects, so that target selection is facilitated if they appear at frequently attended locations, and distractor filtering is facilitated at frequently ignored locations. While selection history effects once instantiated seem to be long-lasting, whether suppression history is similarly durable is still debated. We assessed the permanence of these effects in a unique experimental setting investigating eye-movements, where the locations associated with statistical unbalances were exclusively linked with either target selection or distractor suppression. Experiment 1 and 2 explored the survival of suppression history in the long and in the sh

SUBMITTER: Di Caro V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8253746 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature