New Article on memory and eye movements!
Recognition of incidentally learned visual search arrays is supported by fixational eye movements. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition Efsun Annac, Mathias Pointner, Patrick H. Khader, Hermann J. Müller, Xuelian Zang, & Thomas Geyer Abstract: Repeated encounter of abstract target-distractor letter arrangements leads to improved visual search for such displays. This contextual-cueing effect is attributed to incidental learning of display configurations. Whether observers can consciously access the memory underlying the cueing effect is still a controversial issue. The current study uses a novel recognition task and eyetracking to tackle this question. Experiment 1 investigated observers’ ability to recognize or “generate” the display quadrant of the target in a previous search array when the target was now substituted by distractor element as well as where observers’ eye fixations would fall while they freely viewed the recognition display,