Salience drives non-spatial feature repetition effects in cueing tasks

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• 作者：Greg Huffman ; Naseem Al-Aidroos ; Jay Pratt
• 关键词：Attention ; Space ; based ; Priming ; Repetition effects
• 刊名：Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：79
• 期：1
• 页码：212-222
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• 刊物主题：Cognitive Psychology;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1943-393X
• 卷排序：79

文摘

In an exogenous cueing task repeating a non-spatial feature can benefit performance if the feature is task-relevant to a discrimination response. Previous studies reporting this effect have used complex displays. In the current study, we look at the generalizability of this effect, by extending it to a simple exogenous cueing paradigm in which the cue and target displays each consist of single-object onsets. We also investigate the influence of task-relevant and irrelevant features independently within the same experiment. Consistent with previous studies, we find non-spatial feature repetition benefits in all three experiments. Importantly, and unlike previous studies, we find that the most salient, rather than the task-relevant, feature drives the non-spatial feature repetition benefit. Furthermore, in addition to the previously observed non-spatial feature repetition benefits, we also found a spatially specific feature repetition benefit. We argue that these new findings are consistent with habituation accounts of attentional cueing effects.