Bellaera Lauren, von Mühlenen Adrian, Watson Derrick G
a Department of Psychology , University of Warwick , Coventry , UK.
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove). 2014;67(6):1242-8. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2013.858171. Epub 2013 Dec 9.
Repeated contexts allow us to find relevant information more easily. Learning such contexts has been proposed to depend upon either global processing of the repeated contexts, or alternatively processing of the local region surrounding the target information. In this study, we measured the extent to which observers were by default biased to process towards a more global or local level. The findings showed that the ability to use context to help guide their search was strongly related to an observer's local/global processing bias. Locally biased people could use context to help improve their search better than globally biased people. The results suggest that the extent to which context can be used depends crucially on the observer's attentional bias and thus also to factors and influences that can change this bias.
重复的语境使我们能够更轻松地找到相关信息。有人提出，学习此类语境要么依赖于对重复语境的全局处理，要么依赖于对目标信息周围局部区域的处理。在本研究中，我们测量了观察者默认情况下倾向于进行更全局或局部处理的程度。研究结果表明，利用语境来帮助指导搜索的能力与观察者的局部/全局处理偏向密切相关。局部偏向的人比全局偏向的人更能利用语境来改善他们的搜索。结果表明，语境能够被利用的程度关键取决于观察者的注意力偏向，因此也取决于能够改变这种偏向的因素和影响。
