Since its inception, the contextual cueing (CC) paradigm has generated considerable
interest in various fields of cognitive sciences because it constitutes an elegant approach to …

Contextual cuing experiments show that when displays are repeated, reaction times to find a
target decrease over time even when observers are not aware of the repetition. It has been …

Past experience provides a rich source of predictive information about the world that could
be used to guide and optimize ongoing perception. However, the neural mechanisms that …

A number of studies have demonstrated that the likelihood of a salient item capturing
attention is dependent on the “attentional set” an individual employs in a given situation. The …

Visual context information can guide attention in demanding (ie, inefficient) search tasks.
When participants are repeatedly presented with identically arranged ('repeated') displays …

When observers search for a target object, they incidentally learn the identities and locations
of “background” objects in the same display. This learning can facilitate search performance …

The human visual system receives more information than can be consciously processed. To
overcome this capacity limit, we employ attentional mechanisms to prioritize task-relevant …

The fundamental role that our long-term memories play in guiding perception is increasingly
recognized, but the functional and neural mechanisms are just beginning to be explored …

In the contextual cueing paradigm, incidental visual learning of repeated distractor
configurations leads to faster search times in repeated compared to new displays. This …

The repeated configurations of random elements induce a better search performance than
that of the displays of novel random configurations. The mechanism of such contextual …