title: Facilitatory priming of scene layout depends on experience with the scene.
abstract: Facilitatory scene priming is the positive effect of a scene prime on the immediately subsequent spatial processing of a related target, relative to control primes. In the present experiments, a large set of scenes were presented, each several times. The accuracy of a relational spatial-layout judgment was the main measure (which of two probes in a scene was closer?). The effect of scene primes on sensitivity was near zero for the first presentation of a scene; advantages for scene primes occurred only after two or three presentations. In addition, a bias effect emerged in reaction times for novel scenes. These results imply that facilitatory scene priming requires learning and is top-down in nature. Scene priming may require the consolidation of interscene relations in a memory representation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Psychology PCD 4118, Tampa, Florida 33620, USA. Sanocki@usf.edu
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sanocki
mesh_terms: D003867:Depth Perception / Q000502:physiology; D004215:Distance Perception / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D011930:Reaction Time; D060865:Repetition Priming / Q000502:physiology*; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology*