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  • 1Department of Psychology, University College London, London, England. a.smyth@ucl.ac.uk

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Contextual cuing enhances visual search by using object configurations. This study shows that contextual cuing knowledge is accessible to awareness, challenging previous implicit learning claims.

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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Visual Perception
  • Human Memory

Background:

  • Contextual cuing improves visual search through repeated exposure to object configurations.
  • Participants utilize learned associations between target locations and distractor arrangements as predictive cues.
  • Previous research suggested contextual cuing could occur implicitly.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether contextual cuing information is consciously retrievable.
  • To examine the relationship between implicit learning and explicit awareness in contextual cuing.
  • To determine if awareness is a necessary component of contextual cuing.

Main Methods:

  • Experiment 1: Modified generation tests with increased trials to assess conscious retrieval.
  • Experiment 2: Employed concurrent implicit and explicit (generation and recognition) tests.
  • Post hoc analysis of participants with and without explicit awareness.

Main Results:

  • Increasing trials in generation tests revealed consciously retrievable contextual cuing information.
  • At a group level, learning did not consistently precede awareness.
  • Contextual cuing was observed even in participants without explicit awareness or for configurations not supporting awareness.

Conclusions:

  • Contextual cuing knowledge is demonstrably accessible to conscious awareness.
  • Awareness may be a necessary concomitant of contextual cuing, despite findings at the group level.
  • Methodological power of previous explicit tests may have underestimated awareness in contextual cuing.