Habit-like attentional bias is unlike goal-driven attentional bias against spatial updating.

ABSTRACT: Statistical knowledge of a target's location may benefit visual search, and rapidly understanding the changes in regularity would increase the adaptability in visual search situations where fast and accurate performance is required. The current study tested the sources of statistical knowledge-explicitly-given instruction or experience-driven learning-and whether they affect the speed and location spatial attention is guided. Participants performed a visual search task with a statistical regularity to bias one quadrant ("old-rich" condition) in the training phase, followed by another quadrant ("new-rich" condition) in the switching phase. The "instruction" group was explicitly instructed on the regularity, whereas the "no-instruction" group was not. It was expected that the instruction gro

SUBMITTER: Hong I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9206057 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature