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Sebastiano Cinetto¹, Elvio Blini², Andrea Zangrossi¹

¹Department of General Psychology and Padova Neuroscience Center, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.

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Statistical learning helps prioritize target locations during visual search. This learned spatial bias transfers to everyday free viewing, but not to spatial judgments, suggesting broad applicability.

Keywords:

Eye movements and visual attention Free viewing Spatial attention Statistical learning

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Visual Perception
Human Behavior

Background:

Statistical learning of spatial regularities guides visual search towards probable target locations.
Attentional biases from learning can influence subsequent search tasks, but transfer to free viewing is unproven.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate if statistical learning-based spatial biases transfer from a guided visual search task to free viewing conditions.
To explore the influence of individual viewing patterns and pre-existing biases on learning and transfer.

Main Methods:

A novel closed-loop paradigm using auditory feedback for invisible target search.
Participants searched for targets with location probabilities biased towards one visual hemifield.
Assessed free viewing (rest, image) and spatial judgments before and after the search task.

Main Results:

Search performance improved significantly in the hemifield with biased target locations, demonstrating statistical learning.
The learned spatial bias transferred to free viewing conditions, altering mean horizontal fixation position.
No transfer of the spatial bias was observed in spatial judgment tasks.

Conclusions:

Task-based statistical learning can transfer to more naturalistic, ecological viewing scenarios.
Findings suggest potential for clinical applications to address pathological spatial biases.