ArticleAttention, perception & psychophysics2022
Learning to suppress a location does not depend on knowing which location.
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- Temporal dynamics of adapting to novel contexts during the generalization of learned spatial suppression.Journal of vision · 2026Article
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- Differential Modulation of Attention by Aversive Associative and Statistical Learning in Distinct Visual Search Modes.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Taking time: Auditory statistical learning benefits from distributed exposure.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Article
- Investigating memory episodes in location probability learning: Can altering response features reset spatial bias?Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2025Article
- Neural mechanisms of learned suppression uncovered by probing the hidden attentional priority map.eLife · 2025Article
- Holistic processing is modulated by the probability that parts contain task-congruent information.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2024Article
- The effects of visual distractors on serial dependence.Journal of vision · 2023Article
- Learning to suppress a location is configuration-dependent.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2023Article
- Pinging the brain to reveal the hidden attentional priority map using encephalography.Nature communications · 2023Article
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Abstract
The present study investigated whether explicit knowledge and awareness regarding the regularities present in the display affects statistical learning (SL) in visual search. Participants performed the additional singleton paradigm in which a salient distractor was presented much more often in one location than in all other locations. Previous studies have shown that participants learn this regularity as the location that is most likely to contain a distractor becomes suppressed relative to all other locations. In the current study, after each trial, participants had to either indicate the location of the distractor or the location of the target. Those participants that reported the distractor location, were very much aware of the regularity present in the display. However, participants that reported the target location were basically unaware of the regularity regarding the distractor. The results showed no difference between these groups in the amount of suppression of the high-probability location. This indicates that regardless of whether participants had explicit knowledge or not, the suppression was basically the same. We conclude that explicit knowledge and awareness does not contribute to learning to suppress a location. This conclusion is consistent with the notion that statistical learning is automatic, operating without conscious effort or awareness.
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