ArticleCommunications psychology2023
Contextual cueing of visual search reflects the acquisition of an optimal, one-for-all oculomotor scanning strategy.
Article in Communications psychology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Learning how: A "mindless" procedure alone gives rise to contextual cueing-A weakly supervised connectionist model of statistical context learning in visual search.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Review
- Contextual cueing and attention control: Self-face vs. stranger-face search.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2026Article
- How location-based organization affects the extent of contextual cueing.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2025Article
- Investigating memory episodes in location probability learning: Can altering response features reset spatial bias?Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2025Article
- Visual statistical learning requires attention.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Article
- Template-based attentional guidance and generic procedural learning in contextual guided visual search: Evidence from reduced response time variability.Journal of vision · 2025Article
- Contextual facilitation: Separable roles of contextual guidance and context suppression in visual search.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2024Article
- Contextual cuing survives an interruption from an endogenous cue for attention.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2024Article
- Effect of cue validity on the contextual cueing effect.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Contextual cueing-Eye movements in rotated and recombined displays.Frontiers in cognition · 2024Article
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Abstract
Visual search improves when a target is encountered repeatedly at a fixed location within a stable distractor arrangement (spatial context), compared to non-repeated contexts. The standard account attributes this contextual-cueing effect to the acquisition of display-specific long-term memories, which, when activated by the current display, cue attention to the target location. Here we present an alternative, procedural-optimization account, according to which contextual facilitation arises from the acquisition of generic oculomotor scanning strategies, optimized with respect to the entire set of displays, with frequently searched displays accruing greater weight in the optimization process. To decide between these alternatives, we examined measures of the similarity, across time-on-task, of the spatio-temporal sequences of fixations through repeated and non-repeated displays. We found scanpath similarity to increase generally with learning, but more for repeated versus non-repeated displays. This pattern contradicts display-specific guidance, but supports one-for-all scanpath optimization.
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