ISSN 0439-755X
CN 11-1911/B

Acta Psychologica Sinica ›› 2021, Vol. 53 ›› Issue (6): 555-564.doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1041.2021.00555

• Reports of Empirical Studies •     Next Articles

The influence of feature-based statistical regularity of singletons on the attentional suppression effect

ZHANG Fan, WANG Aijun(), ZHANG Ming()   

  1. Department of Psychology, Research Center for Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China
  • Received:2020-08-05 Published:2021-06-25 Online:2021-04-25
  • Contact: WANG Aijun,ZHANG Ming E-mail:ajwang@suda.edu.cn;psyzm@suda.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation(31871092);National Natural Science Foundation(31700939);Jiangsu basic research program(BK20170333)

Abstract:

Using the variant of the classical additional singleton paradigm, the influence of feature-based statistical regularities of singletons on the attentional suppression effect was investigated. The results showed that: (1) when participants were forced to adopt the feature search mode, the response times were significantly faster in all the conditions with singleton than in the condition without singleton; (2) compared with the condition with a low-probability color singleton, the response times were significantly faster in the trials of high-probability color singleton presented. The results show that the influence of statistical regularities on attention is not limited to the stimulus location, and the feature-based statistical regularities also affect the magnitude of the attentional suppression effect.

Key words: additional singleton paradigm, feature search strategy, statistical regularities, attentional suppression effect