Abstract：
Visual search usually improves with repeated exposure to a search display. Previous research suggests that such a \"contextual cueing\" effect may be supported even by aspects of the search display that participants have been explicitly asked to ignore. Based on this evidence, it has been suggested that the development of contextual cueing over trials does not depend on selective attention. In the present series of experiments, we show that the most common strategy used to prevent participants from paying attention to task-irrelevant distractors often results in suboptimal selection. Specifically, we show that visual search is slower when search displays include many irrelevant distractors. Eye-tracking data show that this happens, at least in part, because participants fixate on them. These results cast doubts on previous demonstrations that contextual cueing is independent of selective attention. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
摘要：
视觉搜索通常随着重复暴露于搜索显示而改善。先前的研究表明，即使是明确要求参与者忽略的搜索显示方面，也可以支持这种“上下文提示”效果。根据这些证据,有人认为,在试验过程中,情境提示的发展并不依赖于选择性注意力.在目前的一系列实验中,我们表明，用于防止参与者关注与任务无关的干扰因素的最常见策略通常会导致次优选择。具体来说,我们表明，当搜索显示包含许多不相关的干扰因素时，视觉搜索速度较慢。眼球追踪数据显示这种情况发生了，至少在某种程度上,因为参与者专注于它们。这些结果对先前的演示表示怀疑，即上下文提示与选择性注意无关。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2024APA，保留所有权利)。
