Frequently finding a target in the same location within a familiar context reduces search time, relative to search for objects appearing in novel contexts. This learned association between a context and a target location requires several blocks of training and has long-term effects. Short-term selection history also influences search, where previewing a subset of a search context shortly before the appearance of the target and remaining distractors speeds search. Here we explored the interactions between contextual cueing and preview benefit using a modified version of a paradigm from Hodsoll and Humphreys (Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 31(6), 1346–1358, 2005). Participants searched for a T target among L distractors. Half of the distractors appeared 800 ms before the addition of the other distractors and the target. We independently manipulated the repetition of the previewed distractors and the newly added distractors. Though the previewed set never contained the target, repetition of either the previewed or the newly added context yielded contextual cueing, and the effect was greater when the previewed context repeated. Another experiment trained participants to associate the previewed context with a target location, then disrupted the association in a testing phase. This disruption eliminated contextual cueing, suggesting that learning of the previewed context was associative. These findings demonstrate an important interaction between distinct kinds of selection history effects.

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预览搜索中的上下文提示。

相对于搜索出现在新上下文中的对象而言，经常在熟悉的上下文中的同一位置找到目标可以减少搜索时间。上下文和目标位置之间的这种学习关联需要几个训练块，并且具有长期影响。短期选择历史也会影响搜索，其中在目标和剩余干扰项出现之前不久预览搜索上下文的子集会加快搜索速度。在这里，我们使用 Hodsoll 和 Humphreys（实验心理学杂志：人类感知和表现，31(6), 1346–1358, 2005)。参与者在 L 个干扰项中寻找一个 T 目标。一半的干扰项在添加其他干扰项和目标之前 800 毫秒出现。我们独立操纵了预览干扰项和新添加干扰项的重复。尽管预览集从未包含目标，但重复预览或新添加的上下文会产生上下文提示，并且当预览上下文重复时效果更大。另一项实验训练参与者将预览的上下文与目标位置相关联，然后在测试阶段中断关联。这种中断消除了上下文提示，表明对预览上下文的学习是关联的。