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Selection history influences an attentional decision bias toward singleton targets

Selection history effects are ubiquitous findings that show how implicitly encoding a target’s feature or location on a trial can facilitate target activation on the following trial. Although the target-defining feature (e.g., color) is usually unpredictable, it is often relevant to determining the...

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Autor principal: Burnham, Bryan R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9715281/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36456797
http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-022-02627-8
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description Selection history effects are ubiquitous findings that show how implicitly encoding a target’s feature or location on a trial can facilitate target activation on the following trial. Although the target-defining feature (e.g., color) is usually unpredictable, it is often relevant to determining the target on a given trial. The present study used a feature priming task, like the three-item oddball search task, but varied the target-defining feature (shape) orthogonal to the priming feature (color) that could influence target activation. On any trial the target could be a color singleton or not, and the target’s feature could repeat or switch between trials. Larger priming effects were seen when the current target was a color singleton than a nonsingleton. Importantly, diffusion analyses showed that pretrial selection bias contributed to these larger priming effects. The results suggest selection history facilitates target activation through an attentional decision bias to select the object with the most recently attended color, and this attentional decision is easier when the current target is also distinct.
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spelling pubmed-97152812022-12-02 Selection history influences an attentional decision bias toward singleton targets Burnham, Bryan R. Atten Percept Psychophys Article Selection history effects are ubiquitous findings that show how implicitly encoding a target’s feature or location on a trial can facilitate target activation on the following trial. Although the target-defining feature (e.g., color) is usually unpredictable, it is often relevant to determining the target on a given trial. The present study used a feature priming task, like the three-item oddball search task, but varied the target-defining feature (shape) orthogonal to the priming feature (color) that could influence target activation. On any trial the target could be a color singleton or not, and the target’s feature could repeat or switch between trials. Larger priming effects were seen when the current target was a color singleton than a nonsingleton. Importantly, diffusion analyses showed that pretrial selection bias contributed to these larger priming effects. The results suggest selection history facilitates target activation through an attentional decision bias to select the object with the most recently attended color, and this attentional decision is easier when the current target is also distinct. Springer US 2022-12-01 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC9715281/ /pubmed/36456797 http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-022-02627-8 Text en © The Psychonomic Society, Inc. 2022, Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9715281/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36456797
http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-022-02627-8
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