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  • Neuroscience
  • Human Factors

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  • Contextual cueing (CC) demonstrates how humans learn spatial regularities to guide attention.
  • The role of attentional resources in CC remains debated.
  • Previous research has not explored the impact of postural variations on CC.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how attentional load, manipulated by perceptual and postural factors, influences contextual cueing.
  • To determine if standing posture enhances contextual cueing, particularly under high perceptual load.
  • To explore the underlying mechanisms of posture-related benefits in visual search.

Main Methods:

  • Visual search tasks were employed with varying perceptual load (target-distractor similarity).
  • Participants performed tasks while sitting and standing to assess postural load.
  • Drift-diffusion modeling was used to analyze reaction time data and decision-making processes.

Main Results:

  • Contextual cueing facilitated search under low perceptual load, irrespective of posture.
  • Under high perceptual load, contextual cueing benefits were observed only when participants were standing.
  • Posture-related benefits persisted after controlling for physiological and physical activity measures.

Conclusions:

  • Standing posture can enhance contextual cueing, especially during challenging visual search tasks.
  • The findings suggest that postural manipulation and contextual cueing may interact at common response-selection stages.
  • Statistical learning, a key component of CC, is effectively supplemented by standing posture under demanding conditions.