title: Visuospatial cueing by self-caused features: Orienting of attention and action-outcome associative learning.
abstract: The effect of a salient visual feature in orienting spatial attention was examined as a function of the learned association between the visual feature and the observer's action. During an initial acquisition phase, participants learned that two keypress actions consistently produced red and green visual cues. Next, in a test phase, participants' actions continued to result in singletons, but their color could be either congruent or incongruent with the learned action-color associations. Furthermore, the color singletons now functioned as valid or invalid spatial cues in a visual search, in which participants looked for a tilted line ("/" or "\") among distractors ("X"s). The results showed that an action-congruent color was more effective as a valid cue in the search task (increased benefit), but less effective as an invalid cue (reduced cost). We discuss our findings in terms of both an inhibition account and a preactivation account of action-driven sensory bias, and argue in favor of the preactivation account.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, 100 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G3, Canada. d.gharagozli@mail.utoronto.ca.
authors.forename: Davood G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Gozli
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, 100 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G3, Canada.
authors.forename: Hira
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Aslam
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, 100 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G3, Canada.
authors.forename: Jay
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pratt
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001245:Association Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D003463:Cues; D006801:Humans; D009043:Motor Activity / Q000502:physiology*; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Associative learning; Sensory attenuation; Visual salience