Nabeta Tomohiro, Ono Fuminori, Kawahara Jun-ichiro
Department of Psychology, Hiroshima University, 1-1-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8524, Japan.
Perception. 2003;32(11):1351-8. doi: 10.1068/p5135.
Under incidental learning conditions, spatial layouts can be acquired implicitly and facilitate visual search (contextual-cueing effect). We examined whether the contextual-cueing effect is specific to the visual modality or transfers to the haptic modality. The participants performed 320 (experiment 1) or 192 (experiment 2) visual search trials based on a typical contextual-cueing paradigm, followed by haptic search trials in which half of the trials had layouts used in the previous visual search trials. The visual contextual-cueing effect was obtained in the learning phase. More importantly, the effect was transferred from visual to haptic searches; there was greater facilitation of haptic search trials when the spatial layout was the same as in the previous visual search trials, compared with trials in which the spatial layout differed from those in the visual search. This suggests the commonality of spatial memory to allocate focused attention in both visual and haptic modalities.
在偶然学习条件下，空间布局可以被隐性习得并促进视觉搜索（情境线索效应）。我们研究了情境线索效应是否特定于视觉模态，或者是否能转移到触觉模态。参与者基于典型的情境线索范式进行了320次（实验1）或192次（实验2）视觉搜索试验，随后进行触觉搜索试验，其中一半的试验采用了先前视觉搜索试验中使用的布局。在学习阶段获得了视觉情境线索效应。更重要的是，这种效应从视觉搜索转移到了触觉搜索；与空间布局与视觉搜索试验不同的试验相比，当空间布局与先前视觉搜索试验相同时，触觉搜索试验得到了更大的促进。这表明在视觉和触觉模态中分配集中注意力的空间记忆具有共性。
