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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Visual attention can be guided by specific features or by relationships between targets and distractors.
  • Attentional control is flexible but can lead to persistent biases due to selection history.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if a relational search strategy biases attention in subsequent tasks.
  • To determine if these relational biases persist when the relevant feature (color) becomes task-irrelevant.

Main Methods:

  • Two experiments were conducted to test the persistence of relational biases.
  • Participants engaged in visual search tasks where previously established relational strategies were re-evaluated under new conditions.

Main Results:

  • A persistent relational bias was demonstrated in a subsequent visual search task.
  • This bias influenced performance when color was task-irrelevant, causing both impairment and facilitation.

Conclusions:

  • Relational search strategies can exert lasting effects on visual attention.
  • Selection history influences attentional control, extending beyond feature-specific tuning.