Verbal instructions as selection bias that modulates visual selection

Research has shown that in addition to top-down and bottom-up processes, biases produced by the repetition priming effect reward play a major role visual selection. Action control research argues bidirectional effect-response associations underlie such are also achievable through verbal instructions. This study evaluated whether verbally induced instructions bias selective attention search task which these were irrelevant. In two online experiments (Exp.1, N = 100; Exp. 2, 100), participants memorized specific before completing speeded visual-search classification tasks. critical trials of task, stimulus specified matched target (positive priming). addition, design Experiment 2 accounted for caused frequent appearance object. Reaction time analysis showed inhibited search. Response error formed an association between response. The results object’s strongly affected overall findings extended list selection modulate attention.