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Learning to suppress a location is configuration-dependent
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Where and what we attend is very much determined by what we have encountered in the past. Recent studies have shown that
people learn to extract statistical regularities in the environment resulting in attentional suppression of locations that were
likely to contain a distractor, efectively reducing the amount of attentional capture. Here, we asked whether this suppression
efect due to statistical learning is dependent on the specifc confguration within which it was learned. The current study
employed the additional singleton paradigm using search arrays that had a confguration consisting of set sizes of either four
or 10 items. Each confguration contained its own high probability distractor location. If learning would generalize across set
size confgurations, both high probability locations would be suppressed equally, regardless of set size. However, if learning
to suppress is dependent on the confguration within which it was learned, one would expect only suppression of the high
probability location that matched the confguration within which it was learned. The results show the latter, suggesting that
implicitly learned suppression is confguration-dependent. Thus, we conclude that the high probability location is learned
within the confguration context within which it is presented
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Visual search Attentional capture
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Gao, Y., de Waard, J., & Theeuwes, J. (2023). Learning to suppress a location is configuration-dependent. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 85(7), 2170–2177. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-023-02732-2
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Springer New York