… underlying age differences in visual search from a life span … to improve in early life and
decline in late life: cognitive speed … visual search that might account differentially for the search …

… task, it is not clear how each of these aspects changes with age. We tested observers aged
6, 8, 10, 22, and 72 years on visual search tasks designed to isolate these factors. No age-…

… The goal of this study was to compare everyday visual search across the life span to address
the five central questions we posed in the introduction. In this section, we return to each of …

… performance is relatively well-maintained across the adult life span, there are few rigorous
demonstrations of maintained cognitive expertise across age. Furthermore, the findings from …

… work on age-related limitations in visual search within the … interpretations for age-related
akcrements in visual search. The … We report that there is clear evidence for age differences at …

… small increase across the life span. Visual search ability, as per many other aspects of visual
performance, exhibited a U-shaped function over the lifespan. Finally, both large horizontal …

… visual search across the life span have focused on classic feature and conjunction searches
in which observers search … relatively homogeneous distractors over a block of multiple trials. …

… A soothing long view is that our progress in understanding visual search mirrors that in
all other sciences. Even obstinate miscomprehensions have gradually been dropped and …

… is referred to as the visual span, perceptual span, span of effective vision, and useful or …
of the visual span's properties is important for a comprehensive theory of visual search. The …

… search, visual search studies in the past three decades have been driven by an effort to
understand visual attention, along with the effort to understand search … studies of visual search in …