title: Visual search for a motion singleton among coherently moving distractors.
abstract: In the current study, we tested whether search for a visual motion singleton presented among several coherently moving distractors can be more efficient than search for a motion stimulus presented with a single distractor. Under a variety of conditions, multiple spatially distributed and coherently moving distractors facilitated search for a uniquely moving target relative to a single-motion-distractor condition (Experiments 1, 3, and 4). Color coherencies among static distractors were not equally effective (Experiments 1 and 2). These results confirm that humans are highly sensitive to antagonistically directed motion signals in backgrounds compared with spatially more confined regions of visual images.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University, PO Box 100131, 33501, Bielefeld, Germany. ulrich.ansorge@uni-bielefeld.de
authors.forename: Ulrich
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Ansorge
authors.forename: Ingrid
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Scharlau
authors.forename: Kirsten
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Labudda
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D005106:Exploratory Behavior; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009039:Motion Perception; D014796:Visual Perception