Is probabilistic cuing of visual search an inflexible attentional habit? A meta-analytic review

In studies on probabilistic cuing of visual search, participants search for a target among several distractors and report some feature of the target. In a biased stage the target appears more frequently in one specific area of the search display. Eventually, participants become faster at finding th...

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Autores: Giménez Fernández, Tamara, Luque, David, Shanks, David R., Vadillo Nistal, Miguel Ángel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
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https://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-021-02025-5
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Palabra clave:Habitual attention
Implicit learning
Meta-analysis
Probabilistic cuing
Visual search
Psicología
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spelling Is probabilistic cuing of visual search an inflexible attentional habit? A meta-analytic reviewGiménez Fernández, TamaraLuque, DavidShanks, David R.Vadillo Nistal, Miguel ÁngelHabitual attentionImplicit learningMeta-analysisProbabilistic cuingVisual searchPsicologíaIn studies on probabilistic cuing of visual search, participants search for a target among several distractors and report some feature of the target. In a biased stage the target appears more frequently in one specific area of the search display. Eventually, participants become faster at finding the target in that rich region compared to the sparse region. In some experiments, this stage is followed by an unbiased stage, where the target is evenly located across all regions of the display. Despite this change in the spatial distribution of targets, search speed usually remains faster when the target is located in the previously rich region. The persistence of the bias even when it is no longer advantageous has been taken as evidence that this phenomenon is an attentional habit. The aim of this meta-analysis was to test whether the magnitude of probabilistic cuing decreases from the biased to the unbiased stage. A meta-analysis of 42 studies confirmed that probabilistic cuing during the unbiased stage was roughly half the size of cuing during the biased stage, and this decrease persisted even after correcting for publication bias. Thus, the evidence supporting the claim that probabilistic cuing is an attentional habit might not be as compelling as previously thoughtOpen Access funding provided thanks to the CRUE-CSIC agreement with Springer Nature. This study was supported by grants 2016-T1/SOC-1395, 2017-T1/SOC-5147, and 2020-5A/SOC-19723 from Comunidad de Madrid, Spain (Programa de Atracción de Talento Investigador), grants PSI2017-85159-P, PGC2018-094694-B-I00, and PID2020-118583GB-I00 from Agencia Estatal de Investigación, Spain, and FEDER, EU, and grant ES/S014616/1 from the Economic and Social Research Council, United KingdomSpringerDepartamento de Psicología BásicaFacultad de Psicología20212021-11-23research articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10486/700711https://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-021-02025-5reponame:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAMinstname:Universidad Autónoma de MadridInglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/7007112026-06-23T12:46:27Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Is probabilistic cuing of visual search an inflexible attentional habit? A meta-analytic review
title Is probabilistic cuing of visual search an inflexible attentional habit? A meta-analytic review
spellingShingle Is probabilistic cuing of visual search an inflexible attentional habit? A meta-analytic review
Giménez Fernández, Tamara
Habitual attention
Implicit learning
Meta-analysis
Probabilistic cuing
Visual search
Psicología
title_short Is probabilistic cuing of visual search an inflexible attentional habit? A meta-analytic review
title_full Is probabilistic cuing of visual search an inflexible attentional habit? A meta-analytic review
title_fullStr Is probabilistic cuing of visual search an inflexible attentional habit? A meta-analytic review
title_full_unstemmed Is probabilistic cuing of visual search an inflexible attentional habit? A meta-analytic review
title_sort Is probabilistic cuing of visual search an inflexible attentional habit? A meta-analytic review
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Giménez Fernández, Tamara
Luque, David
Shanks, David R.
Vadillo Nistal, Miguel Ángel
author Giménez Fernández, Tamara
author_facet Giménez Fernández, Tamara
Luque, David
Shanks, David R.
Vadillo Nistal, Miguel Ángel
author_role author
author2 Luque, David
Shanks, David R.
Vadillo Nistal, Miguel Ángel
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author
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Departamento de Psicología Básica
Facultad de Psicología
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Habitual attention
Implicit learning
Meta-analysis
Probabilistic cuing
Visual search
Psicología
topic Habitual attention
Implicit learning
Meta-analysis
Probabilistic cuing
Visual search
Psicología
description In studies on probabilistic cuing of visual search, participants search for a target among several distractors and report some feature of the target. In a biased stage the target appears more frequently in one specific area of the search display. Eventually, participants become faster at finding the target in that rich region compared to the sparse region. In some experiments, this stage is followed by an unbiased stage, where the target is evenly located across all regions of the display. Despite this change in the spatial distribution of targets, search speed usually remains faster when the target is located in the previously rich region. The persistence of the bias even when it is no longer advantageous has been taken as evidence that this phenomenon is an attentional habit. The aim of this meta-analysis was to test whether the magnitude of probabilistic cuing decreases from the biased to the unbiased stage. A meta-analysis of 42 studies confirmed that probabilistic cuing during the unbiased stage was roughly half the size of cuing during the biased stage, and this decrease persisted even after correcting for publication bias. Thus, the evidence supporting the claim that probabilistic cuing is an attentional habit might not be as compelling as previously thought
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