Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Facultad de Psicologia, Departamento de Psicología Basica.
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform. 2024 Sep;50(9):952-970. doi: 10.1037/xhp0001230.
Visual search usually improves with repeated exposure to a search display. Previous research suggests that such a "contextual cueing" effect may be supported even by aspects of the search display that participants have been explicitly asked to ignore. Based on this evidence, it has been suggested that the development of contextual cueing over trials does not depend on selective attention. In the present series of experiments, we show that the most common strategy used to prevent participants from paying attention to task-irrelevant distractors often results in suboptimal selection. Specifically, we show that visual search is slower when search displays include many irrelevant distractors. Eye-tracking data show that this happens, at least in part, because participants fixate on them. These results cast doubts on previous demonstrations that contextual cueing is independent of selective attention. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
视觉搜索通常会随着对搜索显示的重复暴露而提高。先前的研究表明，即使是参与者被明确要求忽略的搜索显示的某些方面，也可能支持这种“上下文提示”效应。基于这一证据，有人认为，随着试验的进行，上下文提示的发展并不依赖于选择性注意。在本系列实验中，我们表明，最常用于防止参与者关注与任务无关的分心物的常见策略通常会导致次优选择。具体来说，我们表明，当搜索显示包含许多不相关的分心物时，视觉搜索会变慢。眼动追踪数据表明，至少部分原因是参与者会注视这些分心物。这些结果对先前表明上下文提示不依赖于选择性注意的演示提出了质疑。（PsycInfo 数据库记录（c）2024 APA，保留所有权利）。
