@article{ref1,
title="Task specificity of attention training: the case of probability cuing",
journal="Attention, perception and psychophysics",
year="2014",
author="Jiang, Yuhong V. and Swallow, Khena M. and Won, Bo-Yeong and Cistera, Julia D. and Rosenbaum, Gail M.",
volume="77",
number="1",
pages="50-66",
abstract="Statistical regularities in our environment enhance perception and modulate the allocation of spatial attention. Surprisingly little is known about how learning-induced changes in spatial attention transfer across tasks. In this study, we investigated whether a spatial attentional bias learned in one task transfers to another. Most of the experiments began with a training phase in which a search target was more likely to be located in one quadrant of the screen than in the other quadrants. An attentional bias toward the high-probability quadrant developed during training (probability cuing). In a subsequent, testing phase, the target's location distribution became random. In addition, the training and testing phases were based on different tasks. Probability cuing did not transfer between visual search and a foraging-like task. However, it did transfer between various types of visual search tasks that differed in stimuli and difficulty. These data suggest that different visual search tasks share a common and transferrable learned attentional bias. However, this bias is not shared by high-level, decision-making tasks such as foraging.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1943-3921",
doi="10.3758/s13414-014-0747-7",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-014-0747-7"
}