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Implicit learning of ignored visual context.

Yuhong Jiang1, Albert W Leung

  • 1Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. yuhong@wjh.harvard.edu

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
|June 14, 2005
PubMed
Summary

Visual implicit learning depends on attention. While attended locations speed up visual search, ignored locations do not, unless they become attended later, demonstrating attention

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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Visual Perception

Background:

  • Humans exhibit faster processing of familiar visual displays, indicating learning.
  • The role of attention in implicit learning of complex visual contexts is not fully understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether implicit learning of complex visual contexts is dependent on attentional processes.
  • To determine if attention is necessary for the expression of visual implicit learning.

Main Methods:

  • Participants performed a visual search task for a target among distractors.
  • The locations of target, attended distractors, and ignored distractors were systematically repeated.
  • A transfer test assessed performance when attended and ignored sets were switched.

Main Results:

  • Repeating the locations of the target and attended distractors enhanced search speed.
  • Repeating the locations of the target and ignored distractors did not affect search speed.
  • When previously ignored items became attended, performance improved, but previously attended items no longer facilitated search when ignored.

Conclusions:

  • The expression of visual implicit learning is dependent on attention.
  • Latent learning of repeated visual information occurs regardless of attention, but its expression requires attention.

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