No need for inhibitory tagging of locations in visual search.
Participants find it no harder to search for a T among Ls when the items move around at velocities of up to 10.8 degrees/sec than when the items remain static. This result demonstrates that inhibitory tagging of locations is not necessary for successful search, and it provides a challenge to any models of visual search that use a fixed location as the index during accumulation and storage of information about search items.
Hulleman
Johan
J
Department of Psychology, University of Hull, Hull, England. j.hulleman@hull.ac.uk
D000293:Adolescent; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D005260:Female; D005364:Field Dependence-Independence; D006801:Humans; D007266:Inhibition, Psychological; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D009039:Motion Perception; D009949:Orientation; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D011601:Psychophysics; D055815:Young Adult