Browsing Psychology by Subject "visual search"
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Auditory target identification in a visual search task
(University of Waterloo, 2005)Previous research has shown that simultaneous auditory identification of the target in a visual search task can lead to more efficient (i. e. ?flatter?) search functions (Spivey et al. , 2001). Experiment 1 replicates ... -
Collaboration During Visual Search
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Three experiments examine how collaboration influences visual search performance. Working with a partner or on their own, participants reported whether a target was present or absent in briefly presented search displays. ... -
Conditional Probability in Visual Search
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-27)I investigated the effects of probability on visual search. Previous work has shown that people can utilize spatial and sequential probability information to improve their performance on visual attention tasks. My task was ... -
Towards a Theory of Visual Concealment
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-26)The goal of this dissertation is to take initial steps towards understanding concealment behaviour and ultimately developing a theory of visual concealment. Since there are relatively few studies of concealment in the ...