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Citation

Wolfe JM. Nebr. Symp. Motiv. 2012; 59: 183-208.

Affiliation

Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA. wolfe@search.bwh.harvard.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, University of Nebraska Press)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

23437634

Abstract

In visual search tasks, observers look for targets in displays or scenes containing distracting, non-target items. Most of the research on this topic has concerned the finding of those targets. Search termination is a less thoroughly studied topic. When is it time to abandon the current search? The answer is fairly straight forward when the one and only target has been found (There are my keys.). The problem is more vexed if nothing has been found (When is it time to stop looking for a weapon at the airport checkpoint?) or when the number of targets is unknown (Have we found all the tumors?). This chapter reviews the development of ideas about quitting time in visual search and offers an outline of our current theory.


Language: en

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