Citation

Wolfe JM. Iperception 2016; 7(3): e2041669516643244.

Affiliation

Harvard Medical School, USA; Visual Attention Lab, Department of Surgery, Brigham & Women's Hospital, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/2041669516643244

PMID

27433330

PMCID

PMC4934667

Abstract

Kristjansson (2015) suggests that standard research methods in the study of visual search should be "reconsidered." He reiterates a useful warning against treating reaction time x set size functions as simple metrics that can be used to label search tasks as "serial" or "parallel." However, I argue that he goes too far with a broad attack on the use of slopes in the study of visual search. Used wisely, slopes do provide us with insight into the mechanisms of visual search.

Language: en