PSYC 3270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Cognitive Neuroscience, Visual Search, Episodic Memory

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3270
• Professor: Naseem Al- Aidroos

Document Summary

There(cid:859)s more stimuli on the screen that you can target. The length of time if takes people to find the t indicated at once how people deploy attention. Though we are typically unaware of repeated/consistent contexts, perhaps people still learn them (subconsciously), and use them to speed up there search process. Cogn psychol journal has been cited over 1,500 times. Condition (1): (cid:862)old co(cid:374)ditio(cid:374)(cid:863): (cid:1005)(cid:1006) ra(cid:374)do(cid:373)ly ge(cid:374)erated configurations are repeated throughout the experiment. Condition (2): (cid:862)new co(cid:374)ditio(cid:374)(cid:863): (control) target in one of 12 locations, but configuration is generated randomly across each trial used to rule out factors such as practice: no opportunity to learn the configurations of the environment. This should result in a faster reaction time in condition (1) vs (2) This difference is referred to as the contextual cueing effect: reflects participants ability to subconsciously learn about the regularities in the environment (inherent statistical regularities) and using that information to improve behaviour.