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A two-stage visual search model is described. Four experiments show that in a VM paradigm sequential presentation of the display leads to increases in accuracy and decreases in latency. Slower presentation rates allow for faster transfer of the target from iconic to short-term memory. When target and background items are dissimilar, transfer to short-term memory need not take place and decisions can be made on the basis of the Stage 1 analysis. These results are taken as confirming evidence for the proposed model.
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This research was supported by NIMH Grant 27110.
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Hoffman, J.E. A two-stage model of visual search. Perception & Psychophysics 25, 319–327 (1979). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03198811
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