Contextual cuing by global features

• Published in: Perception & psychophysics Vol. 68; no. 7; pp. 1204 - 1216
• Main Authors: KUNAR, Melina A, FLUSBERG, Stephen J, WOLFE, Jeremy M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Austin, TX Psychonomic Society 01.10.2006
• Subjects: Activity levels. Psychomotricity; Adolescent; Adult; Attention; Biological and medical sciences; Color Perception; Cues; Female; Field Dependence-Independence; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; Judgment; Male; Middle Aged; Orientation; Perception; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Reaction Time; Vigilance. Attention. Sleep; Vision; Human; Visual search; Vision; Reaction time; Perception; Cognition; Experimental study; Visual attention

In visual search tasks, attention can be guided to a target item--appearing amidst distractors--on the basis of simple features (e.g., finding the red letter among green). Chun and Jiang's (1998) contextual cuing effect shows that reaction times (RTs) are also speeded if the spatial configurati...