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Visual search is a task involving the detection of a unique item within a multi-item display.
Characteristics of the Visual Search Paradigm
In a visual search task, the item that is being searched for is known as the target; other items are known as distractors. Figure 1 presents an example of visual search displays, containing a target item and varying numbers of distractor items. The total number of items in the display is known as set size. Items in a search display can differ along various feature dimensions, for example, color, orientation, or shape. If items in a visual search task vary along a single dimension such as color, the observer may be looking for a target of a specific hue (e.g., red) in a set of different hue distractors. This is known as feature search. In the case of feature search, distractors can be heterogeneous – varying in hue – or homogeneous – all of them the same hue (e.g., blue, as in the example in Fig. 1a). If all the...
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Martinovic, J., Hardman, A. (2015). Color and Visual Search, Color Singletons. In: Luo, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Color Science and Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27851-8_82-1
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