A dual-stage account of inter-trial priming effects

Lamy, Dominique; Yashar, Amit; Ruderman, Lital

doi:10.1016/j.visres.2010.01.008

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“…For instance, distractor repetition speeds search even when target features are not repeated (e.g., Kristjánsson & Driver, 2008), suggesting that some form of distractor suppression or discounting also plays a role. Other evidence has suggested that priming can also happen at the response selection stage (Lamy, Yashar, & Ruderman, 2010;. This has been observed in complex visual search arrays, which make it difficult to disentangle between the various possible mechanisms.…”

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Visual priming through a boost of the target signal: Evidence from saccadic landing positions

Meeter

Stigchel

2013

Atten Percept Psychophys

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Visual priming through a boost of the target signal: Evidence from saccadic landing positions

Meeter

Stigchel

2013

Atten Percept Psychophys

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“…Recent work from our lab however, has shown that the number of trials over which PoP can be measured is strongly affected by contextual reinstatement that is both perceptual (Thomson & Milliken, 2012) and nonperceptual (Thomson & Milliken, in press) in nature, suggesting that retrieval interference may at least partially dictate the magnitude of PoP effects. In addition, recent theoretical accounts of PoP have been forwarded that acknowledge a role for both feed-forward mechanisms, as well as episodic retrieval contributions to the PoP effect (Lamy, Yashar, & Ruderman, 2010;Yashar & Lamy, 2011). As a result, the attentional control over the magnitude of PoP shown in the present work could result from either control over feature weights from one trial to the next or control over event integration, if indeed both such processes contribute to PoP effects.…”

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Learning what to expect: context-specific control over intertrial priming effects in singleton search

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The present study explored the degree to which repetition effects in color pop-out search from trial n − 1 to trial n are subject to the attentional control settings of the observer. Intertrial priming effects were compared between two contexts that differed in terms of the utility of immediate prior experience for current performance; in one context, the target was likely to repeat, and in the other context, the target was likely to alternate from one trial to the next. Across two experiments, priming of pop-out (PoP) effects (Malkjovic & Nakayama; Memory & Cognition 22:657-672, 1994) were modulated in accord with the probability of target color repetition in a given trial context. Importantly, this modulation persisted when trial history preceding trial n − 1 was controlled for. Furthermore, this control over PoP seems not to derive from explicit strategies and is not an artifact of randomly occurring strings of same-target trials. We argue that priming effects in singleton search from trial n − 1 to trial n are subject to a form of implicit top-down control.

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“…In particular, it has been suggested that facilitatory effects observed in intertrial priming may be an "aggregate" of early perceptual-processing benefits in directing focal attention to the odd-ball target, in addition to later memory retrieval benefits that impact response-related processing (Lamy, Yashar, & Ruderman, 2010). An important implication of this hybrid view is that recent studies showing that episodic retrieval can impact singleton search performance from one trial to the next does not preclude the presence of early perceptual-processing benefits that are due to activation/ suppression mechanisms.…”

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Perceptual distinctiveness produces long-lasting priming of pop-out

Thomson

Milliken

2012

Psychon Bull Rev

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Maljkovic and Nakayama (1994) demonstrated memory influences in singleton search from one trial to the next, an effect they termed priming of pop-out (PoP). This effect was described as resulting from the persistence of an implicit memory trace, the influence of which could be observed for around five to eight subsequent trials. The seemingly short-lived nature of this priming effect has been attributed to decay of the underlying memory representation that occurs when attention is directed to intervening search items, even when such items are perceptually dissimilar from the search trials upon which PoP is measured (Maljkovic & Nakayama, 2000). The present study reexamines the role of perceptual similarity as a mechanism of interference by examining the influence on PoP of rare search trials that were perceptually distinct with respect to the other, common trials. Long-lasting (n − 16) PoP was observed for rare trials that were composed of distinct target/distractor colors, suggesting that PoP can be observed across at least twice as many trials as has previously been reported. Thus, the time span across which PoP can be measured depends heavily on the nature of the intervening search displays, a result that must be accommodated by current theoretical accounts of PoP. Keywords Priming . Visual search . Memory and attentionVisual search processes are fundamental to the selection of relevant information in our perceptual environment. Although visual search is ubiquitous in everyday life, the nature of the underlying mechanisms that allow us to search efficiently remains a topic of intense scientific study. This study is aimed in particular at the nature of the processes that contribute to efficient (or pop-out) search performance. Although pop-out search was once thought of as depending entirely on preattentive perceptual processing (Treisman & Gelade 1980), a growing body of evidence suggests that it is also affected by shortterm memory representations. Assessing the seemingly shortlived nature of memory representations in singleton search was the primary purpose of the work reported here.In a series of experiments, using a task first developed by

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A dual-stage account of inter-trial priming effects

Cited by 70 publications

References 24 publications

Visual priming through a boost of the target signal: Evidence from saccadic landing positions

Visual priming through a boost of the target signal: Evidence from saccadic landing positions

Learning what to expect: context-specific control over intertrial priming effects in singleton search

Perceptual distinctiveness produces long-lasting priming of pop-out

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