The way the cognitive system scans the visual environment for relevant information–visual search in short–has been a long-standing central topic in vision science. From its inception …
Theories of attention commonly refer to the “attentional template” as the collection of features in working memory that represent the target of visual search. Many models of attention …
Sometimes, salient-but-irrelevant objects (distractors) presented concurrently with a search target cannot be ignored and attention is involuntarily allocated towards the distractor first …
Visual search is facilitated when the target is repeatedly encountered at a fixed position within an invariant (vs. randomly variable) distractor layout—that is, when the layout is …
Observers can learn the likely locations of salient distractors in visual search, reducing their potential to cause interference. Although there is agreement that this involves positional …
Prior knowledge about an upcoming target can bias attention and facilitate visual search performance. However, whether knowledge about distractors can likewise enhance search …
A Zinchenko, M Conci, HJ Müller… - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Visual search is faster when a fixed target location is paired with a spatially invariant (vs. randomly changing) distractor configuration, thus indicating that repeated contexts are …
X Zang, A Zinchenko, J Wu, X Zhu, F Fang… - Attention, Perception, & …, 2022 - Springer
Repeatedly presenting a target within a stable search array facilitates visual search, an effect termed contextual cueing. Previous solo-performance studies have shown that …
Research on attentional control within real‐world contexts has become substantially more feasible and thus frequent over the past decade. However, relatively little is known regarding …