Inter-trial priming does not affect attentional priority in asymmetric visual search

Abstract

Visual search is considerably speeded when the target’s characteristics remain constant across successive selections. Here, we investigated whether such inter-trial priming increases the target’s attentional priority, by examining whether target repetition reduces search efficiency during serial search. As the study of inter-trial priming requires the target and distractors to exchange roles unpredictably, it has mostly been confined to singleton searches, which typically yield efficient search. We therefore resorted to two singleton searches known to yield relatively inefficient performance,

Abstract by Liana eAmunts; Amit eYashar; Dominique eLamy, Frontiers in Psychology (2014) — licensed CC BY 4.0.

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