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- Title
Conditional probability modulates visual search efficiency.
- Authors
Cort, Bryan; Anderson, Britt
- Abstract
We investigated the effects of probability on visual search. Previous work has shown that people can utilize spatial and sequential probability information to improve target detection. We hypothesized that performance improvements from probability information would extend to the efficiency of visual search. Our task was a simple visual search in which the target was always present among a field of distractors, and could take one of two colors. The absolute probability of the target being either color was 0.5; however, the conditional probability-the likelihood of a particular color given a particular combination of two cues-varied from 0.1 to 0.9. We found that participants searched more efficiently for high conditional probability targets and less efficiently for low conditional probability targets, but only when they were explicitly informed of the probability relationship between cues and target color.
- Subjects
VISUAL perception; PROBABILITY theory; IMPLICIT learning; REACTION time; ATTENTION; PROMPTS (Psychology)
- Publication
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2013, Vol 7, p1
- ISSN
1662-5161
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3389/fnhum.2013.00683