The current study investigates whether statistical regularities that change over time affect attentional selection. While searching for a target singleton, the distractor singleton was presented much more often in one location than in all other locations. Crucially, the location that had a distractor much more often, changed to new locations during the course of the experiment. Here we established exactly how the bias of attention followed these changes in the display. Unlike previous studies, we show that selection was remarkably flexible as the attentional bias followed the changes in the environment incorporating contributions of previous contingencies to the current attentional bias. Importantly, the initial learning experience had a lingering and enduring effect on subsequent attentional biases. We argue that the weights within the spatial priority map of selection are adjusted to changing environments, even though observers are unaware of these changes in the environment.

中文翻译：

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在不断变化的环境中隐含的注意偏见。

本研究调查随时间变化的统计规律是否会影响注意力选择。在搜寻目标单身人士时，牵张者单身人士在一个位置比在其他所有位置更经常出现。至关重要的是，在实验过程中，经常发生干扰的位置更改为新位置。在这里，我们确定了注意力的偏向如何跟随显示中的这些变化。与以往的研究不同，我们发现选择具有显着的灵活性，因为注意偏见跟随环境的变化，并结合了先前突发事件对当前注意偏见的贡献。重要的是，最初的学习经历对随后的注意偏见具有持久的影响。