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Guidance of Visual Search by Memory and Knowledge

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The Influence of Attention, Learning, and Motivation on Visual Search

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Abstract

To behave intelligently in the world, humans must be able to find objects efficiently within the complex environments they inhabit. A growing proportion of the literature on visual search is devoted to understanding this type of natural search. In the present chapter, I review the literature on visual search through natural scenes, focusing on the role of memory and knowledge in guiding attention to task-relevant objects.

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Notes

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    Smith and Henderson (2009) use the term “facilitation of return” to refer to the finding that return saccades are observed more frequently than expected by chance. Dodd et al. (2009) use “facilitation of return” to refer to the finding that, in non-search tasks, saccades are generated more quickly to abrupt onsets at previously fixated locations than at new locations.

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Hollingworth, A. (2012). Guidance of Visual Search by Memory and Knowledge. In: Dodd, M., Flowers, J. (eds) The Influence of Attention, Learning, and Motivation on Visual Search. Nebraska Symposium on Motivation. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4794-8_4

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