title: Is construction reserved for the target during visual search?
abstract: This study was designed to examine the possibility, that where there is high similarity between irrelevant and target letters, the irrelevant letter will be constructed to sudents each attended a 1-hr. experimental session in which they searched 25 lists, followed by a recognition test. The lists were made up from the upper case letters of the alphabet, and during the recognition test each S was required to indicate how many times each of the irrelevant letters had appeared on the final list searched. Analysis of variance showed a significant recognition frequency effect. The results indicated Neisser's (1967) view, that during visual search construction is reserved for the target, may require modification.
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition; D004056:Differential Threshold; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological; D005260:Female; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D007257:Information Theory; D008297:Male; D008570:Memory, Short-Term