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Hollingworth, Andrew; Maxcey-Richard, Ashleigh M.; Vecera, Shaun P. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
Attention operates to select both spatial locations and perceptual objects. However, the specific mechanism by which attention is oriented to objects is not well understood. We examined the means by which object structure constrains the distribution of spatial attention (i.e., a "grouped array"). Using a modified version of the Egly et…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Spatial Ability, Attention, Cues
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Brockmole, James R.; Castelhano, Monica S.; Henderson, John M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2006
In contextual cueing, the position of a target within a group of distractors is learned over repeated exposure to a display with reference to a few nearby items rather than to the global pattern created by the elements. The authors contrasted the role of global and local contexts for contextual cueing in naturalistic scenes. Experiment 1 showed…
Descriptors: Cues, Visual Perception, Context Effect, Role Theory