Statistical Properties Demand as Much Attention as Object Features.
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SUBMITTER: Huang L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4546565 | biostudies-literature | 2015
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Statistical Properties Demand as Much Attention as Object Features.
PloS one 20150821 8
Recent studies have argued that the statistical properties of a set of visual items can be extracted with little or even no cost. In the present study, observers (N = 188) performed a color task and an orientation task, and the attention effect was measured as the advantage of pre-cueing one of the two tasks. The color and orientation tasks required participants to report either an object feature or the mean of a 4×4 array (i.e., statistical property). The pre-cueing advantages were approximatel ...[more]
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