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Interaction Between Object Cueing and Spatial Cueing in Vis- ual Search

To conduct an efficient visual search, visual attention must be guided to the target appropriately. Previous studies have suggested that attention can be quickly guided to a target, when the spatial configurations of search objects, or the object identities have been repeated. This phenomenon is termed “contextual cueing”. In this study, we investigated the effect of learning spatial configurations, distractor identities, and a combination of both configurations and identities, on visual search. The results show that visual search is more efficient when searching for repeated stimuli than when searching for new ones (i.e., configuration-repetition, identity-repetition, or a combination of them). Furthermore, learning was superior when configuration and identity were repeated than in the other two repetition conditions. These results suggest that the effects of contextual cues are associated with both configuration and identity learning, and that the effects of these two types of contextual cueing are additive. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that contextual cueing operate through two functionally independent learning mechanisms.