<原著論文>視覚的文脈の潜在学習における学習方略の影響

[Abstract] Visual search performance is improved when participants repeatedly experience the same spatial layout （contextual cueing）. Contextual cueing suggests that the spatial layout is implicitly learned and can guide spatial attention to the target location. In the previous study, by manipulating participants’ search strategy（ active or passive）, it was showed that contextual cueing occurred only when participants conducted the search task with passive strategy. However, it was unclear whether strategy would affect learning of context information or use of the learned context. The purpose of the present study was to examine the interaction between context learning and search strategy by switching search strategy in the training and test sessions. The results showed that contextual cueing occurred when conducting search task with passive strategy in the training session, and the contextual cueing effect in the test session remained even when switching the strategy to active. These results suggest that search strategy could affect learning of context information not but use of learned context.専攻: 認知心理