Visual Search is Guided to Categorically-defined Targets

Overview

Journal Vision Res

Specialty Ophthalmology

Date 2009 Jun 9

PMID 19500615

Citations 63

Authors

Hyejin Yang

Gregory J Zelinsky

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Abstract

To determine whether categorical search is guided we had subjects search for teddy bear targets either with a target preview (specific condition) or without (categorical condition). Distractors were random realistic objects. Although subjects searched longer and made more eye movements in the categorical condition, targets were fixated far sooner than was expected by chance. By varying target repetition we also determined that this categorical guidance was not due to guidance from specific previously viewed targets. We conclude that search is guided to categorically-defined targets, and that this guidance uses a categorical model composed of features common to the target class.

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