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Learning to suppress a location does not depend on knowing which location
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The present study investigated whether explicit knowledge and awareness regarding the regularities present in the display
afects statistical learning (SL) in visual search. Participants performed the additional singleton paradigm in which a salient distractor was presented much more often in one location than in all other locations. Previous studies have shown that
participants learn this regularity as the location that is most likely to contain a distractor becomes suppressed relative to all
other locations. In the current study, after each trial, participants had to either indicate the location of the distractor or the
location of the target. Those participants that reported the distractor location, were very much aware of the regularity present
in the display. However, participants that reported the target location were basically unaware of the regularity regarding
the distractor. The results showed no diference between these groups in the amount of suppression of the high-probability
location. This indicates that regardless of whether participants had explicit knowledge or not, the suppression was basically
the same. We conclude that explicit knowledge and awareness does not contribute to learning to suppress a location. This
conclusion is consistent with the notion that statistical learning is automatic, operating without conscious efort or awareness.
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Attentional capture Awareness Visual search Statistical regularities
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Gao, Y., Theeuwes, J. Learning to suppress a location does not depend on knowing which location. Atten Percept Psychophys (2022). https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-021-02404-z
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Springer Verlag