Testing a relational account of search templates in visual foraging.

ABSTRACT: Search templates guide human visual attention toward relevant targets. Templates are often seen as encoding exact target features, but recent studies suggest that templates rather contain "relational properties" (e.g., they facilitate "redder" stimuli instead of specific hues of red). Such relational guidance seems helpful in naturalistic searches where illumination or perspective renders exact feature values unreliable. So far relational guidance has only been demonstrated in rather artificial single-target search tasks with briefly flashed displays. Here, we investigate whether relational guidance also occurs when humans interact with the search environment for longer durations to collect multiple target elements. In a visual foraging task, participants searched for and collected multipl

SUBMITTER: Grossle IM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10397186 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature