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Gokce, Ahu ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5032-7007; Müller, Hermann J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4774-5654 and Geyer, Thomas (2015): Positional priming of visual pop-out search is supported by multiple spatial reference frames. In: Frontiers in Psychology, Vol. 6, 838 [PDF, 1MB]

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Abstract

The present study investigates the representations(s) underlying positional priming of visual pop-out' search (Maljkodc and Nakayama, 1996). Three search items (one target and two distractors) were presented at different locations, in invariant (Experiment 1) or random (Experiment 2) cross-trial sequences. By these manipulations it was possible to disentangle retinotopic, spatiotopic, and object-centered priming representations. Two forms of priming were tested: target location facilitation (i.e.,faster reaction times - RTswhen the trial n target is presented at a trial n-1 target relative to n-1 blank location) and distractor location inhibition (i.e.,slower RTs for n targets presented at n-1 distractor compared to n-1 blank locations). It was found that target locations were coded in positional short-term memory with reference to both spatiotopic and object-centered representations (Experiment 1 vs. 2). In contrast, distractor locations were maintained in an object-centered reference frame (Experiments 1 and 2). We put forward the idea that the uncertainty induced by the experiment manipulation (predictable versus random cross-trial item displacements) modulates the transition from object- to space-based representations in cross-trial memory for target positions.

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