Reward-Based Transfer From Bottom-Up to Top-Down Search Tasks
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Recent evidence has suggested that reward modulates bottom-up and top-down attentional selection and that this effect persists within the same task even when reward is no longer offered. It remains unclear whether reward effects transfer across tasks, especially those engaging different modes of attention. We directly investigated whether reward-based contingency learned in a bottom-up search task was transferred to a subsequent top-down search task, and probed the nature of the transfer mechanism. Results showed that a reward-related benefit established in a pop-out-search task was transferred to a conjunction-search task, increasing participants’ efficiency at searching for targets previously associated with a higher level of reward. Reward history influenced search efficiency by enhancing both target salience and distractor filtering, depending on whether the target and distractors shared a critical feature. These results provide evidence for reward-based transfer between different modes of attention and strongly suggest that an integrated priority map based on reward information guides both top-down and bottom-up attention.
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Learned associations keep affecting selection even when the training and test task are very different.
“Some studies have shown, however, that learned associations keep affecting selection even when the training and test task are very different (e.g., Chelazzi et al., 2014; Jahfari & Theeuwes, 2016; Lee & Shomstein, 2014; Raymond & O’Brien, 2009).”
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- Authors
- Lee, J., & Shomstein, S.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Davis (US)
- George Washington University (US)
- Venue
- Psychological Science
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2013-12-13
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 466-475
- ISSN
- 0956-7976 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-9280
- PMC
- PMC3933189
- OpenAlex
- W2126768989
- Cited by
- 70
- References
- 30
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- FWCI
- 5.12
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Psychological Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Eye Institute (R21EY021644)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Keywords
- selective attention, bottom-up attention, top-down attention, transfer of learning, contingency learning, pop-out search, conjunction search, target salience, distractor filtering, priority map, reward history
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Attention, Female, Humans, Male, Reward, Transfer, Psychology, Visual Perception, Young Adult
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