The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, China.
Perception. 2023 Jun;52(6):423-431. doi: 10.1177/03010066231171357. Epub 2023 May 1.
Spatial contextual cueing refers to the facilitation of visual search when invariant spatial configurations of the target and distractors are learned. Using the instance theory of automatization and the reverse hierarchy theory of visual perceptual learning, this study explores the acquisition of spatial contextual cueing. The findings support the reverse hierarchy theory, which predicts that the acquisition of spatial contextual cueing progresses in an easy-to-difficult cascading manner. However, these findings are inconsistent with instance theory, which predicts that the acquisition of spatial contextual cueing in easy-half-repeated trials would keep pace with that in difficult-half-repeated trials. This study concludes that compared with instance theory, reverse hierarchy theory more plausibly explains the acquisition of spatial contextual cueing.
空间上下文 cueing 是指当目标和干扰物的不变空间配置被学习时，视觉搜索的促进。本研究使用自动化的实例理论和视觉感知学习的逆层次理论来探索空间上下文 cueing 的习得。研究结果支持了逆层次理论，该理论预测空间上下文 cueing 的习得以一种从易到难的级联方式进行。然而，这些发现与实例理论不一致，实例理论预测在容易的半重复试验中获得空间上下文 cueing 的速度与在困难的半重复试验中相同。本研究得出的结论是，与实例理论相比，逆层次理论更合理地解释了空间上下文 cueing 的习得。
