title: [Are the visually marked items encoded as a context?].
abstract: We examined the attentional constraints of the contextual cueing effect known to occur only for attended items. We focused on whether the items not only attended to but also inhibited afterwards yield the effect or not. We adopted a hybrid paradigm of visual marking and contextual cueing procedures. In the experiment, half the distractors preceded the others and a target for one second. The results showed the contextual cueing effect even with visually marked items. These results suggest that spatial configurations previously attended to and inhibited afterwards can be encoded as visual context.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education, Hiroshima University, Kagamiyama, Higashi-hiroshima 739-8524.
authors.forename: Fuminori
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ono
authors.forename: Tomohiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nabeta
authors.forename: Jun-ichiro
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kawahara
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D003463:Cues; D006801:Humans; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D011930:Reaction Time