scholarly journals Expectations and perceptual priming in a visual search task: Evidence from eye movements and behavior.

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 489-499 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Shurygina ◽  
Árni Kristjánsson ◽  
Luke Tudge ◽  
Andrey Chetverikov
i-Perception ◽  
10.1068/ii44 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 475-475
Author(s):  
K.M.A Mitchell ◽  
B.W Tatler

2009 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 246-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan S. A. Carriere ◽  
Daniel Eaton ◽  
Michael G. Reynolds ◽  
Mike J. Dixon ◽  
Daniel Smilek

For individuals with grapheme–color synesthesia, achromatic letters and digits elicit vivid perceptual experiences of color. We report two experiments that evaluate whether synesthesia influences overt visual attention. In these experiments, two grapheme–color synesthetes viewed colored letters while their eye movements were monitored. Letters were presented in colors that were either congruent or incongruent with the synesthetes' colors. Eye tracking analysis showed that synesthetes exhibited a color congruity bias—a propensity to fixate congruently colored letters more often and for longer durations than incongruently colored letters—in a naturalistic free-viewing task. In a more structured visual search task, this congruity bias caused synesthetes to rapidly fixate and identify congruently colored target letters, but led to problems in identifying incongruently colored target letters. The results are discussed in terms of their implications for perception in synesthesia.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Shurygina ◽  
Arni Kristjansson ◽  
Luke Tudge ◽  
Andrey Chetverikov

An extensive amount of research indicates that repeating target and distractor features facilitates pop-out search while switching these features slows the search. Following the seminal study by Maljkovic & Nakayama (1994), this ‘priming of pop-out’ effect (PoP) has been widely described as an automatic bottom-up process that is independent of the observers' expectations. At the same time, numerous studies emphasize the crucial role of expectations in visual attention deployment. Our experiment shows that in contrast to previous claims, PoP in a classic color singleton search task is a mix of automatic priming and expectations. Participants searched for a uniquely-colored diamond among two same-colored distractors. Target color sequences were either predictable (e.g., two red-target-green-distractors trials, followed by two green-target-red- distractors trials, and so on) or random. Responses were faster in predictable color sequences than randomly changing ones with equal number of repetitions of target colors on preceding trials. Analysis of observers’ eye movements showed that predictability of target color affected both latency and accuracy of the first saccade during a search trial. Our results support the idea that PoP is governed not only by automatic effects from previous target or distractor features but also by top-down expectations.


2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Buttaccio ◽  
Nicholas D. Lange ◽  
Rick P. Thomas ◽  
Michael Dougherty

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 435-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhong-Hua HU ◽  
Guang ZHAO ◽  
Qiang LIU ◽  
Hong LI

2014 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel R. Buttaccio ◽  
Nicholas D. Lange ◽  
Rick P. Thomas ◽  
Michael R. Dougherty

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