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Longman, Cai S.; Lavric, Aureliu; Monsell, Stephen – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
Switching tasks prolongs response times, an effect reduced but not eliminated by active preparation. To explore the role of attentional selection of the relevant stimulus attribute in these task-switch costs, we measured eye fixations in participants cued to identify either a face or a letter displayed on its forehead. With only 200 ms between cue…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Eye Movements, Attention, Reaction Time
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Kunar, Melina A.; Watson, Derrick G. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2011
In visual search tasks participants search for a target among distractors in strictly controlled displays. We show that visual search principles observed in these tasks do not necessarily apply in more ecologically valid search conditions, using dynamic and complex displays. A multi-element asynchronous dynamic (MAD) visual search was developed in…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Visual Stimuli, Experimental Psychology, Undergraduate Students