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Visual Search Facilitation in Repeated Displays Depends on Visuospatial Working Memory

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When distractor configurations are repeated over time, visual search becomes more efficient, even if participants are unaware of the repetition. This contextual cueing is a form of incidental, implicit learning. One might therefore expect that contextual cueing does not (or only minimally) rely on working memory resources. This, however, is debated in the literature. We investigated contextual cueing under either a visuospatial or a nonspatial (color) visual working memory load. We found that contextual cueing was disrupted by the concurrent visuospatial, but not by the color working memory load. A control experiment ruled out that unspecific attentional factors of the dual-task situation disrupted contextual cueing. Visuospatial working memory may be needed to match current display items with long-term memory traces of previously learned displays.
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Angela Manginelli, Franziska Geringswald, Stefan Pollmann. Visual Search Facilitation in Repeated Displays Depends on Visuospatial Working Memory. Experimental Psychology, 2012, 59 (1), pp.47-54. ⟨10.1027/1618-3169/a000125⟩. ⟨hal-04146944⟩
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