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visual search CONCEPT
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orienting for targets in an array or a natural scene, through both covert and overt shifts in attention; this is different from the visual search task in that it refers to a general phenomenon and not to a paradigm.

Definition contributed by Anonymous

Asserted relationships to other concepts

visual search
is a kind of
  • search
    • visual search
    is a part of
    No associations
    are a kind of
    visual search
  • feature search
  • conjunction search
    • are a part of
    visual search
  • attention
  • salience
  • Gestalt grouping

    • Tasks that are asserted to measure visual search

    Task Contrast Measure
    match to sample visual search
    • number correct
    contextual cueing task
    • number of distractors
    Color Trails Test
    • target - distractor
    visual pursuit/tracking
    • path of eye movements
    visual attention task
    • path of eye movements
    underlining test
    • # correct minus # incorrect/30 or 60 seconds
    Trail Making Test A and B
    • ANOVA of time by age group
    same-different task
    • Overall accuracy of participant minus average accuracy