Rethinking attentional habits

Attentional habits acquired by visual statistical learning cause enduring biases toward specific locations. These habits, driven by recent search history, are thought to be independent of both goal-directed and stimulus-driven attentional mechanisms. This theoretical claim is based on three characte...

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Autores: Giménez Fernández, Tamara, Luque, David, Shanks, David R., Vadillo Nistal, Miguel Ángel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/712599
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10486/712599
https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09637214231191976
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:attentional habits
implicit learning
probabilistic cuing
statistical learning
working memory
Psicología
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Sumario:Attentional habits acquired by visual statistical learning cause enduring biases toward specific locations. These habits, driven by recent search history, are thought to be independent of both goal-directed and stimulus-driven attentional mechanisms. This theoretical claim is based on three characteristics that these habits apparently exhibit, that is, they are inflexible, implicit, and efficient. We review methodological limitations in previous studies and briefly describe recent results that challenge this new framework. We conclude that it might be premature to assume that attentional habits are based on a special search history process that differs from the two traditionally recognized attentional mechanisms