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Contextual cueing of visual attention

Chun, Marvin M.·2000·Trends in Cognitive Sciences

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Visual context information constrains what to expect and where to look, facilitating search for and recognition of objects embedded in complex displays. This article reviews a new paradigm called contextual cueing, which presents well-defined, novel visual contexts and aims to understand how contextual information is learned and how it guides the deployment of visual attention. In addition, the contextual cueing task is well suited to the study of the neural substrate of contextual learning. For example, amnesic patients with hippocampal damage are impaired in their learning of novel contextual information, even though learning in the contextual cueing task does not appear to rely on conscious retrieval of contextual memory traces. We argue that contextual information is important because it embodies invariant properties of the visual environment such as stable spatial layout information as well as object covariation information. Sensitivity to these statistical regularities allows us to interact more effectively with the visual world.

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  • When targets appeared in contextual configurations in which they had been selected before, they were more quickly selected than when they appeared in configurations in which they had never been selected, even though participants seemed unaware of the contextual relationships.

    “They showed that when targets appeared in contextual configurations in which they had been selected before, they were more quickly selected than when they appeared in configurations in which they had never been selected—even though participants seemed to be unaware of the contextual relationships (but see Smyth & Shanks, 2008).”

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Authors
Chun, M. M.
Affiliations
Vanderbilt University (US)
Corresponding author
Chun, Marvin M.
Venue
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2000-05
Volume
4
Issue
5
Pages
170-178
ISSN
1364-6613 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2141474346
Cited by
732
References
106
Citations by year
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0.67
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
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  • Trends in Cognitive Sciences (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
National Science Foundation
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
Keywords
contextual cueing, visual attention, contextual learning, spatial configuration, statistical learning, amnesia, hippocampus, visual search, object recognition, contextual memory

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