The time course of visual foraging in the lifespan: Spatial scanning, organization search, and target processing.

ABSTRACT: Visual foraging is a variant of visual search, consisting of searching for an undetermined number of targets among distractors (e.g., looking for various LEGO pieces in a box). Under non-exhaustive tasks, the observer scans the display, picking those targets needed, not necessarily all of them, before leaving the search. To understand how the organization of such natural foraging tasks works, several measures of spatial scanning and organization have been proposed in the exhaustive foraging literature: best-r, intertarget distances, PAO, and target intersections. In the present study, we apply these measures and new Bayesian indexes to determine how the time course of visual foraging is organized in a dynamic non-exhaustive paradigm. In a large sample of observers (279 participants, 4-25 y

SUBMITTER: Bella-Fernandez M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10867067 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature