Is probabilistic cuing of visual search an inflexible attentional habit? A meta-analytic review.

ABSTRACT: In studies on probabilistic cuing of visual search, participants search for a target among several distractors and report some feature of the target. In a biased stage the target appears more frequently in one specific area of the search display. Eventually, participants become faster at finding the target in that rich region compared to the sparse region. In some experiments, this stage is followed by an unbiased stage, where the target is evenly located across all regions of the display. Despite this change in the spatial distribution of targets, search speed usually remains faster when the target is located in the previously rich region. The persistence of the bias even when it is no longer advantageous has been taken as evidence that this phenomenon is an attentional habit. The aim of

SUBMITTER: Gimenez-Fernandez T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9038896 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature