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  • Neuroscience
  • Visual Attention

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  • Attention is guided by experience and learned regularities.
  • Salient distractors can be suppressed, improving performance.
  • The role of learned cue relevance in distractor suppression is unclear.

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  • To investigate if learned cue relevance affects distractor suppression.
  • To examine the impact of distractor relevance on feature interference errors.
  • To understand how statistical regularities influence stimulus feature perception.

Main Methods:

  • Participants performed a delayed color estimation task.
  • A salient distractor cue was presented at non-target locations.
  • Two contexts were used: 0% and 50% cue-target location match.
  • A probabilistic mixture model analyzed performance and feature interference.

Main Results:

  • Swap rates differed significantly between contexts, depending on experience order.
  • Learned relevance of distractors influenced susceptibility to distraction.
  • Context order affected the impact of salient distractors on target perception.

Conclusions:

  • Learned relevance of distractor cues modulates attention and susceptibility to interference.
  • Statistical regularities concerning cue relevance influence perception and encoding of features.
  • Findings suggest dynamic interplay between learning, relevance, and attentional control.