Contextual Cueing Effect in Spatial Layout Defined by Binocular Disparity

Frontiers in Psychology

Shen Tu¹  Hong-jin Sun²  Jie Ma³  Qiang Liu³  Guang Zhao³  Qian Zhuang³ 

[1] Department of Psychology, Institute of Education, China West Normal UniversityNanchong, China;Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, HamiltonON, Canada;Research Center of Brain and Cognitive Neuroscience, Liaoning Normal UniversityDalian, China;

关键词: contextual cueing effect;    depth vision;    binocular disparity;    spatial layout;    attentional guidance;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01472

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Repeated visual context induces higher search efficiency, revealing a contextual cueing effect, which depends on the association between the target and its visual context. In this study, participants performed a visual search task where search items were presented with depth information defined by binocular disparity. When the 3-dimensional (3D) configurations were repeated over blocks, the contextual cueing effect was obtained (Experiment 1). When depth information was in chaos over repeated configurations, visual search was not facilitated and the contextual cueing effect largely crippled (Experiment 2). However, when we made the search items within a tiny random displacement in the 2-dimentional (2D) plane but maintained the depth information constant, the contextual cueing was preserved (Experiment 3). We concluded that the contextual cueing effect was robust in the context provided by 3D space with stereoscopic information, and more importantly, the visual system prioritized stereoscopic information in learning of spatial information when depth information was available.

【 授权许可】

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