The contextual cueing effect is a robust phenomenon in which repeated exposure to the same arrangement of random elements guides attention to relevant information by constraining search. The effect is measured using an object search task in which a target (e.g., the letter T) is located within repeated or nonrepeated visual contexts (e.g., configurations of the letter L). Decreasing response times for the repeated configurations indicates that contextual information has facilitated search. Although the effect is robust among adult participants, recent attempts to document the effect in children have yielded mixed results. We examined the effect of search speed on contextual cueing with school-aged children, comparing three types of stimuli that promote different search times in order to observe how speed modulates this effect. Reliable effects of search time were found, suggesting that visual search speed uniquely constrains the role of attention toward contextually cued information.

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搜索速度在儿童注意力的情境提示中的作用

上下文提示效应是一种鲁棒的现象，在这种现象中，重复暴露于相同排列的随机元素通过限制搜索来引导对相关信息的注意。使用对象搜索任务测量效果，其中目标（例如，字母 T）位于重复或非重复的视觉上下文（例如，字母 L 的配置）内。减少重复配置的响应时间表明上下文信息促进了搜索。尽管这种效果在成人参与者中很明显，但最近记录儿童效果的尝试产生了好坏参半的结果。我们研究了搜索速度对学龄儿童上下文提示的影响，比较了促进不同搜索时间的三种刺激类型，以观察速度如何调节这种效果。