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Published on: June 30, 2020
Statistical learning affects the time courses of salience-driven and goal-driven selection
Changrun Huang1, Jan Theeuwes1, Mieke Donk1
1Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Abstract:
The present study investigated how statistical regularities present in the display affected the time courses associated with salience-driven and goal-driven visual selection. In two experiments, participants were instructed to make a speeded saccade toward a prespecified target that was presented simultaneously with a distractor among multiple homogeneously oriented background lines. The distractor was presented more often at one location than at all other locations. We found that the statistical regularity regarding the distractor location affected visual selection very early, modulating the time courses associated with both salience-driven and goal-driven selection. These results suggest that statistical learning induces a continuous bias in visual selection, operating above and beyond salience-driven and goal-driven control. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
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