There is more to contextual cuing than meets the eye: Improving visual search without attentional guidance toward predictable target locations.

It is usually easier to find objects in a visual scene as we gain familiarity with it. Two decades of research on contextual cuing search show that repeated exposure display can facilitate the detection targets appear at predictable locations display. Typical accounts for this effect attribute an essential role learned associations between target and other stimuli These improve either by driving attention toward usual location or facilitating its recognition. Contrary view, robust also be observed when displays do not allow predicted. results suggest that, addition mechanisms already explored previous research, participants learn ignore occupied distractors, which turn facilitates even they unpredictable locations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).