Filtering by movement in visual search.

Journal article

Search for a target defined by a conjunction of movement and form (e.g., an X moving up in a display of intermingled Os moving up and stationary Xs) is parallel. This result is also found if (a) the moving Os and target X move in unpredictable directions so that the moving stimuli do not form a clear perceptual group or (b) the nontarget Xs also move but in a known, different direction from the Os and target X. In contrast, search is slow and serial if the target may be unpredictably among ei...

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Authors: McLeod, P; Driver, J; Dienes, Z; Crisp, J

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 55-64
• Publication date: 1991-02-01
• DOI: 10.1037//0096-1523.17.1.55
• EISSN: 1939-1277
• ISSN: 0096-1523
• Language: English
• Keywords: Female; Attention; Psychophysics; Adult; Humans; Pattern Recognition, Visual; Discrimination Learning; Orientation; Motion Perception; Male