Can a single short-term mechanism account for priming of pop-out?

W. Kruijne, J. Brascamp, A. Kristjansson, M. Meeter

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Abstract

Trial-to-trial feature repetition speeds response times in pop-out visual search tasks. These priming effects are often ascribed to a short-term memory system. Recently, however, it has been reported that a 'build-up' sequence of repetitions could facilitate responses over 16 trials later - well beyond twice the typically reported time course (Vision Research, 2011, 51, 1972-1978). Here, we first report two replication attempts that yielded little to no support for such long-term priming of pop-out. The results instead fell in line with the predictions of a previously proposed computational model that describes priming as short-lived facilitation that decays over approximately eight trials (Vision Research, 2010, 50, 2110-2115). In the second part of this study, we show that these data are consistent with a simple formulation of decay with a single timescale, and that there is no significant priming beyond eight trials.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)17-22
JournalVision Research
Volume115
Issue numberA
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015

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