TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - Task specificity of attention training: the case of probability cuing
JO  - Attention, perception and psychophysics
A1  - Jiang, Yuhong V.
A1  - Swallow, Khena M.
A1  - Won, Bo-Yeong
A1  - Cistera, Julia D.
A1  - Rosenbaum, Gail M.
SP  - 50
EP  - 66
VL  - 77
IS  - 1
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1943-3921
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-014-0747-7
ID  - ref1
ER  -