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@article{citeulike:1302043, abstract = {Visual context information constrains what to expect and where to look, facilitating search for and recognition of objects embedded in complex displays. This article reviews a new paradigm called contextual cueing, which presents well-defined, novel visual contexts and aims to understand how contextual information is learned and how it guides the deployment of visual attention. In addition, the contextual cueing task is well suited to the study of the neural substrate of contextual learning. For example, amnesic patients with hippocampal damage are impaired in their learning of novel contextual information, even though learning in the contextual cueing task does not appear to rely on conscious retrieval of contextual memory traces. We argue that contextual information is important because it embodies invariant properties of the visual environment such as stable spatial layout information as well as object covariation information. Sensitivity to these statistical regularities allows us to interact more effectively with the visual world.}, address = {Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, 531 Wilson Hall, Nashville, TN 37240, USA.}, author = {Chun, M. M.}, citeulike-article-id = {1302043}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10782102}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=10782102}, issn = {1364-6613}, journal = {Trends in cognitive sciences}, keywords = {attention, context\_effects, cp\_prosem, cuing, memory, methods, vision}, month = {May}, number = {5}, pages = {170--178}, posted-at = {2009-09-16 16:15:38}, priority = {0}, title = {Contextual cueing of visual attention.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10782102}, volume = {4}, year = {2000} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1302043 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1302043 N2 - Visual context information constrains what to expect and where to look, facilitating search for and recognition of objects embedded in complex displays. This article reviews a new paradigm called contextual cueing, which presents well-defined, novel visual contexts and aims to understand how contextual information is learned and how it guides the deployment of visual attention. In addition, the contextual cueing task is well suited to the study of the neural substrate of contextual learning. For example, amnesic patients with hippocampal damage are impaired in their learning of novel contextual information, even though learning in the contextual cueing task does not appear to rely on conscious retrieval of contextual memory traces. We argue that contextual information is important because it embodies invariant properties of the visual environment such as stable spatial layout information as well as object covariation information. Sensitivity to these statistical regularities allows us to interact more effectively with the visual world. IS - 5 JF - Trends in cognitive sciences SN - 1364-6613 AD - Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, 531 Wilson Hall, Nashville, TN 37240, USA. EP - 178 TI - Contextual cueing of visual attention. VL - 4 SP - 170 KW - attention KW - context_effects KW - cp_prosem KW - cuing KW - memory KW - methods KW - vision AU - Chun, MM PY - 2000/05// UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10782102 ER -