Traditional Visual Search vs. X-Ray Image Inspection in Students and Professionals: Are the Same Visual-Cognitive Abilities Needed?

The act of looking for targets amongst an array of distractors is a cognitive task that has been studied extensively over many decades and has many real-world applications. Research shows that specific visual-cognitive abilities are needed to efficiently and effectively locate a target among distrac...

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Main Authors: Nicole Hättenschwiler, Sarah Merks, Yanik Sterchi, Adrian Schwaninger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00525/full