Werner Seitz

Learning how: A “mindless” procedure alone gives rise to contextual cueing—A weakly supervised connectionist model of statistical context learning in visual search

Because our environment is not random, it is beneficial to assimilate the statistics of sensory impressions and improve performance, such as visual search for a target object in a cluttered array of nontarget objects (contextual cueing [CC] effect). Computational models of CC have so far focused on predicting the targe...