@article{ref1,
title="Mechanisms of the Associated Nontargets Effect: Processes Influenced by Statistical Learning in a Simple Visual Environment",
journal="Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)",
year="2007",
author="Reynolds, Ann and Miller, Jeff",
volume="60",
number="6",
pages="837-859",
abstract="In three visual search experiments participants were asked to make a target response if either of two targets was present and to make a nontarget response if neither target was present. Some target-absent displays included only nontarget features that never occurred in the same displays as target features, whereas other target-absent displays included nontarget features that did sometimes occur with target features. Nontarget responses were reliably faster in the former case than in the latter. This &quot;associated nontargets effect&quot; appears to arise from participants' ability to learn and to use contingencies between the presence of certain nontargets and the absence of any target.   <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1747-0218",
doi="10.1080/17470210600822563",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470210600822563"
}