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Find:. What does visual search teach us?. Cognitive processes! Speed & Accuracy Mechanisms Automatic or Attention Search strategy Parallel, Serial, random or… ?. Features. Find the odd item Discriminate by.. Color xxxx x xx Size x x xxxxx Orientation ------l--- Depth
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What does visual search teach us? • Cognitive processes! • Speed & Accuracy • Mechanisms • Automatic or Attention • Search strategy • Parallel, Serial, random or…?
Features... • Find the odd item • Discriminate by.. • Color xxxxxxx • Size xxxxxxx • Orientation ------l--- • Depth • Movement xxxx--> x
Look for the red L L L L L L
L L L L L L L L L
Feature search is easy! • Fast (300ms) • Parallel (0-10ms/item) • No attention needed 500 400 300 0 ms/item 5 10 15 # of items
Conjunction Search • Find...combination of features • 2 orientations (particular arrangement) • Find: L among Ts T T L T T
T T T T T T T T T L T T T
T T T T L T T T T T T T T
Conjunction search is hard! • Slower • Sequential • Focused attention needed Conjunction 40 ms/item 700 500 Feature 0 ms/item 300 5 10 15 # of items
Feature search is easy • Fast (300ms) • Parallel (<10ms/item) • Focused attention not needed (i.e.,Can use a distributed form of attention ) • Conjunction search is difficult • Slow (>500ms) • Serial (>10ms/item) • Focused attention needed
What guides search? • Environmental information.
What guides search? • Environmental information. • Internal cognitive process • Attention. • Memory? • Deterministic Process: Self-Organized Criticality (SOC)?
Memory for locations in search (Kristjansso,2000) Identity of objects accumulates over time (Treisman & Gelade, 1980) Random repositioning of stimuli does not affect search RTs (Horowitz & Wolfe, 1998) Inattentional amnesia in search (Wolfe, 1999) Memory in visual search? We are able to keep track of where we look!Inhibition of return (Klein, 1982) • Failure to replicate inhibition of return(Wolfe & Pokorny, 1990)
Non-systematic eye-movements Engle, 1977; Ellis & Stark, 1988; Scinto & Pillalamarri, 1986; Krendel & Wodinsky, 1960; Groner & Groner, 1982
Visual Search Task Find the upright “T” T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T
Map trajectory of eyes: • Duration & x,y coordinates for each fixation.---------------------------------------------------------- • Differences between fixations • xn – xn+1 &yn – yn+1 • Distance =(x2 + y2)1/2 • Direction = Arctan (y/x).
Posner & Raichel, 1994). Images of mind. New York: Scientific American Series. W/ citation in Palmer, S. (1999). Vision Science: Photons to phenomenology. Boston: MIT.
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