ArticleAttention, perception & psychophysics2023
Attentional suppression is in place before display onset.
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- The puzzle of profitless pre-cues.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Pooled it
- Temporal dynamics of adapting to novel contexts during the generalization of learned spatial suppression.Journal of vision · 2026Article
- Learned statistical regularity modulates anticipatory micro-saccades toward suppressed distractor locations.Nature communications · 2026Article
- When forewarned is not forearmed: No evidence for cue-based proactive control in the spatial Stroop task.Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance · 2026Article
- Learning alters salience and proactive attentional priority.Communications psychology · 2026Article
- Learning Modulates Early Encephalographic Responses to Distracting Stimuli: A Combined SSVEP and ERP Study.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Neural mechanisms of learned suppression uncovered by probing the hidden attentional priority map.eLife · 2025Article
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- Category-like representation of statistical regularities allows for stable distractor suppression.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Spatial transfer of object-based statistical learning.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2024Article
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Abstract
Recent studies have shown that observers can learn to suppress a location that is most likely to contain a distractor. The current study investigates whether the statistically learned suppression is already in place, before, or implemented exactly at the moment participants expect the display to appear. Participants performed a visual search task in which a distractor was presented more frequently at the high-probability location (HPL) in a search display. Occasionally, the search display was replaced by a probe display in which participants needed to detect a probe offset. The temporal relationship between the probe display and the search display was manipulated by varying the stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs) in the probe task. In this way, the attentional distribution in space was probed before, exactly at, or after the moment when the search display was expected to be presented. The results showed a statistically learned suppression at the HPL, as evidenced by faster and more accurate search when a distractor was presented at this location. Crucially, irrespective of the SOA, probe detection was always slower at the HPL than at the low-probability locations, indicating that the spatial suppression induced by statistical learning is proactively implemented not just at the moment the display is expected, but prior to display onset. We conclude that statistical learning affects the weights within the priority map relatively early in time, well before the availability of the search display.
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