Psychological Development and Education ›› 2019, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (4): 504-512.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2019.04.14

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The Characteristics and Mechanisms of Contextual Cueing Effect in Real-world Scenes

LIU Xingze1, CHEN Minghui1, CUI Jiawei2, ZHAO Guang1   

  1. 1. Brain and cognitive neuroscience research center, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116029;
    2. College of psychology, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116029
  • Published:2019-08-28

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Abstract: The found of contextual cueing effect revealed a phenomenon that a stable configuration among objects could be utilized to improve the efficiency of visual search. This review compared and discussed the implicit leaning and guidance of classical contextual cueing effect with relevant theories of visual search in real-world scenes and summarize the nature of learning and the involved mechanisms and paradigms of contextual cueing effect in real-world scene. Further, the various incoming information that contained in real-world can be divided into the low-level saliency and semantic information by different cognitive processing. Although current researches concerned about the basic mechanisms of contextual cueing effect in the two dimensions in real-word scenes. However, there was still a lack of other aspects that could be verified in the future research, such as the detailed categories of various information that contributed to the learning of contextual cueing effect, and each of their reacting periods.

Key words: visual search, contextual cueing effect, real-world scenes, low-level saliency, semantic information

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