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Yayla A Ilksoy¹, Dirk van Moorselaar¹, Benchi Wang²

¹Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception and Performance

|September 24, 2025

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Learned attention suppression, which helps avoid distractors, operates only relative to the eyes (retinotopic coordinates). This learned suppression does not transfer to world-based (spatiotopic) coordinates after eye movements.

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Visual Attention
Perceptual Learning

Background:

Past experiences shape attention, leading to learned suppression of high-probability distractor locations.
It remains unclear if this learned suppression is retinotopic (eye-centered) or spatiotopic (world-centered).

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate whether learned attentional suppression operates in retinotopic or spatiotopic coordinates.
To determine if learned suppression transfers across different reference frames after saccadic eye movements.

Main Methods:

Participants learned high-probability (HP) distractor locations in a learning array.
Gaze was shifted to a test array, creating both retinotopic and spatiotopic matches to the original HP location.
Attentional suppression was measured to assess coordinate frame preference.

Main Results:

Learned attentional suppression was found to be retinotopically based.
No significant transfer of learned suppression to spatiotopic coordinates was observed after saccades.
Suppression remained exclusive to retinotopic coordinates even in complex environments.

Conclusions:

Learned attentional suppression operates solely within retinotopic coordinates.
This suggests that learned suppression mechanisms may involve synaptic changes in early visual processing areas.
The findings clarify the reference frame for learned attentional suppression, impacting models of visual attention.