TY - JOUR
T1 - Spatial processing and perceptual sequence learning in SRT tasks
AU - Deroost, Natacha
AU - Soetens, Eric
N1 - Experimental Psychology, 53(1), 16-30
PY - 2006/1/1
Y1 - 2006/1/1
N2 - We investigated the influence of processing relevant spatial information on learning a probabilistic sequence of irrelevant locations. Using the SRT design of Remillard (2003), we found that spatial perceptual learning occurs with paired but not with single targets. The pairs of targets consisted of the same stimuli, but in a different order, so that responses could have been based on the left-right location of an element, relative to the other element of the pair. The prerequisite of spatial pairs of targets suggests that spatial processing of relevant information plays a crucial role in perceptual location learning. In addition, spatial perceptual learning only took place when the target pair was presented together with other stimuli, but was absent when the target pair was presented in a blank field. Since in the latter case attention is automatically captured, this suggests that sequence learning requires endogenous attention
AB - We investigated the influence of processing relevant spatial information on learning a probabilistic sequence of irrelevant locations. Using the SRT design of Remillard (2003), we found that spatial perceptual learning occurs with paired but not with single targets. The pairs of targets consisted of the same stimuli, but in a different order, so that responses could have been based on the left-right location of an element, relative to the other element of the pair. The prerequisite of spatial pairs of targets suggests that spatial processing of relevant information plays a crucial role in perceptual location learning. In addition, spatial perceptual learning only took place when the target pair was presented together with other stimuli, but was absent when the target pair was presented in a blank field. Since in the latter case attention is automatically captured, this suggests that sequence learning requires endogenous attention
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169.53.1.16
DO - https://doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169.53.1.16
M3 - Article
VL - 53
SP - 16
EP - 30
JO - Experimental Psychology
JF - Experimental Psychology
SN - 1618-3169
IS - 1
ER -