ArticlePsychonomic bulletin & review2025
Visual statistical learning requires attention.
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- The role of selective attention in value-modulated attentional capture.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Article
- Parallel or clump-wise serial? A reinterpretation of feature-search mode.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2026Article
- Repeated exposure to task-relevant and task-irrelevant information - and their interaction - affect visual search performance.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2026Article
- On the rigidity of the preparation effect.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The Effects of Cognitive Fatigue and Articulatory Suppression on Statistical Language Learning Depend on the Strength of Cognitive Resources.Cognitive science · 2026Article
- Carry-over effect of learned distractor suppression on visual working memory.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Article
- Load-dependent processing of prediction violations in task-irrelevant space.Journal of vision · 2025Article
- Value-modulated attentional capture depends on awareness.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Article
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Abstract
Statistical learning is a person's ability to automatically learn environmental regularities through passive exposure. Since the earliest studies of statistical learning in infants, it has been debated exactly how "passive" this learning can be (i.e., whether attention is needed for learning to occur). In Experiment 1 of the current study, participants performed a serial feature search task where they searched for a target shape among heterogenous nontarget shapes. Unbeknownst to the participants, one of these nontarget shapes was presented much more often in location. Even though the regularity concerned a nonsalient, nontarget item that did not receive any attentional priority during search, participants still learned its regularity (responding faster when it was presented at this high-probability location). While this may suggest that not much, if any, attention is needed for learning to occur, follow-up experiments showed that if an attentional strategy (i.e., color subset search or exogenous cueing) effectively prevents attention from being directed to this critical regularity, incidental learning is no longer observed. We conclude that some degree of attention to a regularity is needed for visual statistical learning to occur.
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