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Visual exploration in adults: Habituation, mere exposure, or optimal level of arousal?
Exploration is one of the most powerful behaviours that drive learning from infancy to adulthood. The aim of the current study was to examine the role of novelty and subjective preference in visual exploration. To do this, we combined a visual exploration task with a subjective evaluation task, pres...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9233633/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34545534 http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13420-021-00484-3 |
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author | Gustafsson, Erik Francoeur, Coralie Blanchette, Isabelle Sirois, Sylvain |
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description | Exploration is one of the most powerful behaviours that drive learning from infancy to adulthood. The aim of the current study was to examine the role of novelty and subjective preference in visual exploration. To do this, we combined a visual exploration task with a subjective evaluation task, presenting novel and familiar pictures. The first goal was to ascertain whether, as demonstrated in babies, short habituation favors visual exploration of familiarity, whereas longer habituation leads to an exploration of novelty. The second goal was to evaluate the influence of familiarization on participants’ subjective evaluation of the stimuli. When presented with novel and very familiar stimuli, participants explored the novel stimuli more. In line with the optimal-level of arousal model, participants showed more positive evaluations of the semi-familiar stimuli compared with very familiar or very novel ones. |
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spelling | pubmed-92336332022-06-27 Visual exploration in adults: Habituation, mere exposure, or optimal level of arousal? Gustafsson, Erik Francoeur, Coralie Blanchette, Isabelle Sirois, Sylvain Learn Behav Article Exploration is one of the most powerful behaviours that drive learning from infancy to adulthood. The aim of the current study was to examine the role of novelty and subjective preference in visual exploration. To do this, we combined a visual exploration task with a subjective evaluation task, presenting novel and familiar pictures. The first goal was to ascertain whether, as demonstrated in babies, short habituation favors visual exploration of familiarity, whereas longer habituation leads to an exploration of novelty. The second goal was to evaluate the influence of familiarization on participants’ subjective evaluation of the stimuli. When presented with novel and very familiar stimuli, participants explored the novel stimuli more. In line with the optimal-level of arousal model, participants showed more positive evaluations of the semi-familiar stimuli compared with very familiar or very novel ones. Springer US 2021-09-20 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9233633/ /pubmed/34545534 http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13420-021-00484-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Gustafsson, Erik Francoeur, Coralie Blanchette, Isabelle Sirois, Sylvain Visual exploration in adults: Habituation, mere exposure, or optimal level of arousal? |
title | Visual exploration in adults: Habituation, mere exposure, or optimal level of arousal? |
title_full | Visual exploration in adults: Habituation, mere exposure, or optimal level of arousal? |
title_fullStr | Visual exploration in adults: Habituation, mere exposure, or optimal level of arousal? |
title_full_unstemmed | Visual exploration in adults: Habituation, mere exposure, or optimal level of arousal? |
title_short | Visual exploration in adults: Habituation, mere exposure, or optimal level of arousal? |
title_sort | visual exploration in adults: habituation, mere exposure, or optimal level of arousal? |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9233633/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34545534 http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13420-021-00484-3 |
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