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January 1, 2018Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance

Statistical regularities modulate attentional capture.

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BWBenchi WangSouth China Normal University JTJan TheeuwesNetherlands Institute for Neuroscience

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Behavioral experiment demonstrates learned suppression of high-probability distractor locations during visual search, indicating implicit statistical modulation of attention.

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To investigate whether spatial statistical regularities modulate attentional capture and visual selection during search tasks.
Administered an additional singleton task requiring subjects to search for a salient shape singleton while ignoring a color distractor singleton.
Systematically biased the color distractor to appear more frequently in one specific visual location compared to all other locations.
Attentional capture by distractors and target selection efficiency were both significantly reduced at the high-probability distractor location.
Observed a spatial gradient of suppression, where attentional capture effects and target selection efficiency scaled proportionally with distance from the high-probability location.
Explicit awareness of the statistical regularities did not alter the magnitude or pattern of the suppression effect.

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Wang et al. (2018) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a102dc2fa36b6e053fd53ea https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000472

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Behavioral experiment demonstrates learned suppression of high-probability distractor locations during visual search, indicating implicit statistical modulation of attention.

Statistical regularities modulate attentional capture.

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