Investigating cue competition in contextual cuing of visual search.

2012 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 709-725 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Beesley ◽  
David R. Shanks
Keyword(s):  
Visual Search ◽  
Cue Competition ◽  
Contextual Cuing

scholarly journals Overt attention in contextual cuing of visual search is driven by the attentional set, but not by the predictiveness of distractors.

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 707-721 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Beesley ◽  
Gunadi Hanafi ◽  
Miguel A. Vadillo ◽  
David. R. Shanks ◽  
Evan J. Livesey
Keyword(s):  
Visual Search ◽  
Contextual Cuing ◽  
Attentional Set ◽  
Overt Attention

scholarly journals The role of color in visual search in real-world scenes: Evidence from contextual cuing

2008 ◽  
Vol 70 (7) ◽  
pp. 1366-1378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krista A. Ehinger ◽  
James R. Brockmole
Keyword(s):  
Visual Search ◽  
Real World ◽  
Contextual Cuing

scholarly journals Testing the controllability of contextual cuing of visual search

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Luque ◽  
Miguel A. Vadillo ◽  
Francisco J. Lopez ◽  
Rafael Alonso ◽  
David R. Shanks
Keyword(s):  
Visual Search ◽  
Contextual Cuing

scholarly journals Configural learning in contextual cuing of visual search.

2016 ◽  
Vol 42 (8) ◽  
pp. 1173-1185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Beesley ◽  
Miguel A. Vadillo ◽  
Daniel Pearson ◽  
David R. Shanks
Keyword(s):  
Visual Search ◽  
Contextual Cuing ◽  
Configural Learning

Local Contextual Cuing in Visual Search

2005 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joachim Hoffmann ◽  
Albrecht Sebald
Keyword(s):  
Visual Search ◽  
Spatial Relations ◽  
Contextual Cuing ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Local Topography ◽  
Target Locations

Abstract. Previous research has indicated that covariations between the global layout of search displays and target locations result in contextual cuing: the global context guides attention to probable target locations. The present experiments extend these findings by showing that local redundancies also facilitate visual search. Participants searched for randomly located targets in invariant homogenous displays, i.e., the global context provided information neither about the location nor about the identity of the target. The only redundancy referred to spatial relations between the targets and certain distractors: Two of the distractors were frequently presented next to the targets. In four of five experiments, targets with frequent flankers were detected faster than targets with rare flankers. The data suggest that this local contextual cuing does not depend on awareness of the redundant local topography but needs the redundantly related stimuli to be attended to.

scholarly journals Contextual cuing of visual search does not guide attention automatically in the presence of top-down goals.

2021 ◽  
Vol 47 (8) ◽  
pp. 1080-1090
Author(s):  
David Luque ◽  
Tom Beesley ◽  
Sara Molinero ◽  
Miguel A. Vadillo
Keyword(s):  
Visual Search ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Contextual Cuing

scholarly journals There is more to contextual cuing than meets the eye: Improving visual search without attentional guidance towards predictable target locations

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel A. Vadillo ◽  
Tamara Giménez-Fernández ◽  
Tom Beesley ◽  
David Shanks ◽  
David Luque
Keyword(s):  
Visual Search ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
Search Display ◽  
Repeated Exposure ◽  
Visual Scene ◽  
Contextual Cuing ◽  
Attentional Guidance ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
Usual Location ◽  
Target Locations

It is usually easier to find objects in a visual scene as we gain familiarity with it. Two decades of research on contextual cuing of visual search show that repeated exposure to a search display can facilitate the detection of targets that appear at predictable locations in that display. Typical accounts for this effect attribute an essential role to learned associations between the target and other stimuli in the search display. These associations improve visual search either by driving attention towards the usual location of the target or by facilitating its recognition. Contrary to this view, we show that a robust contextual cuing effect can also be observed when repeated search displays do not allow the location of the target to be predicted. These results suggest that, in addition to the mechanisms already explored by previous research, participants learn to ignore the locations usually occupied by distractors, which in turn facilitates the detection of targets even when they appear in unpredictable locations.

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