title: Moving towards solutions to some enduring controversies in visual search.
abstract: How do we find a target item in a visual world filled with distractors? A quarter of a century ago, in her influential 'Feature Integration Theory (FIT)', Treisman proposed a two-stage solution to the problem of visual search: a preattentive stage that could process a limited number of basic features in parallel and an attentive stage that could perform more complex acts of recognition, one object at a time. The theory posed a series of problems. What is the nature of that preattentive stage? How do serial and parallel processes interact? How does a search unfold over time? Recent work has shed new light on these issues.
authors.affiliation: Center for Ophthalmic Research, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 221 Longwood Ave, 02115, Boston, MA, USA
authors.forename: Jeremy M.
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Wolfe