title: Visual Search Revived: The Slopes Are Not That Slippery: A Reply to Kristjansson (2015).
abstract: Kristjansson (2015) suggests that standard research methods in the study of visual search should be "reconsidered." He reiterates a useful warning against treating reaction time x set size functions as simple metrics that can be used to label search tasks as "serial" or "parallel." However, I argue that he goes too far with a broad attack on the use of slopes in the study of visual search. Used wisely, slopes do provide us with insight into the mechanisms of visual search.
authors.affiliation: Harvard Medical School, USA; Visual Attention Lab, Department of Surgery, Brigham & Women's Hospital, USA.
authors.forename: Jeremy M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Wolfe
keywords: guided search; parallel search; reaction times; response times; selective attention; serial search; visual attention; visual search