Awareness in contextual cuing with extended and concurrent explicit tests

• Published in: Memory & cognition Vol. 36; no. 2; pp. 403 - 415
• Main Authors: Smyth, Andrea C., Shanks, David R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer-Verlag 01.03.2008; Psychonomic Society; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adult; Association Learning; Awareness; Behavioral Science and Psychology; Biological and medical sciences; Cognitive Psychology; Cues; Discrimination Learning; Experiments; Explicit knowledge; Female; Field Dependence-Independence; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; Male; Memory; Mental Recall; Orientation; Pattern Recognition, Visual; Perception; Power; Psychology; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Reaction Time; Studies; Vision; Within-subjects design; Target Letter; False Alarm Rate; Implicit Learning; Detection Task; Generation Task; Context; Human; Visual search; Awareness; Visual cue; Vision; Perception; Cognition; Experimental study

The term contextual cuing refers to improved visual search performance with repeated exposure to a configuration of objects. Participants use predictive cues-derived from learned associations between target locations and the spatial arrangement of the surrounding distractors in a configuration-to ef...