Increased Fixation Distance during Search among Familiar Distractors: Eve-movement Evidence of Distractor Grouping

The present study tested the hypothesis that distractor-based facilitation of visual search occurs because familiar distractors are processed and rejected in groups. We recorded participants’ eye movements during a visual search task to determine if familiar distractors were associated with an incre...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Walker, Robin
Other Authors: Reingold, Eyal M.
Language:en_ca
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/18988