Spatial contextual cueing reflects an incidental form of learning that occurs when spatial distractor configurations are repeated in visual search displays. Recently, it was reported that the efficiency of contextual cueing can be modulated by reward. We replicated this behavioral finding and investigated its neural basis with fMRI. Reward value was associated with repeated displays in a learni...

Do moving observers code attended locations relative to the external world or relative to themselves? To address this question we asked participants to conduct visual search on a tabletop. The search target was more likely to occur in some locations than others. Participants walked to different sides of the table from trial to trial, changing their perspective. The high-probability locations we...

Two experiments investigated the performance of firstgrade children and adults on an incidental language-learning task. Learning entailed word segmentation from continuous speech, an initial and crucial component of language acquisition. Subjects were briefly exposed to an unsegmented artificial language, presented auditorily, in which the only cues to word boundaries were the transitional prob...

Two experiments investigated the performance of firstgrade children and adults on an incidental language-learning task. Learning entailed word segmentation from continuous speech, an initial and crucial component of language acquisition. Subjects were briefly exposed to an unsegmented artificial language, presented auditorily, in which the only cues to word boundaries were the transitional prob...

The MASELTOV project is developing a framework for facilitating the creation of technology rich and socially inclusive learning opportunities for immigrants within cities. The framework has been developed in the FP7-supported MASELTOV project (“Mobile Assistance for Social Inclusion and Empowerment of Immigrants with Persuasive Learning Technologies and Social Network Services”) in response to ...

There is a question as to whether cue competition effects can be observed in incidental learning paradigms in humans. Some authors have reported that cue competition is not observed, suggesting that previous demonstrations of cue competition have relied on explicit awareness of the task in hand. This would in turn imply that these effects are more likely to be the product of cognitive inference...