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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Computational Neuroscience

Background:

  • Predictive processing frameworks highlight prediction's role in attention.
  • The interaction between predictive processes and selection history in attention remains unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how selection history interacts with predictive processing in attention control.
  • To determine the influence of prediction errors on the impact of selection history.

Main Methods:

  • Behavioral and electroencephalography (ERP) measures were used.
  • Participants engaged in a singleton search task after developing a history of color or shape selection.
  • Prediction errors were manipulated to be high or low across sessions.

Main Results:

  • Selection history persistently influences stimulus precision weighting, mediated by prediction error.
  • Color-singleton distractors demanded more suppression following a history of color selection.
  • High predictability yielded benefits for participants with a history of color selection.

Conclusions:

  • Selection history implicitly modulates feature precision expectations, creating an attentional bias.
  • Predictability can counteract, but not eliminate, this attentional bias.
  • This suggests a persistent, implicit influence of selection history on attentional control.