Reduced low-prevalence visual search detriment with increasing age: Implications for cognitive theories of aging and real-world search tasks.

ABSTRACT: When performing multiple successive visual searches, low-prevalence targets are at elevated risk of being missed. This has important implications for real-world visual search tasks, such as diagnostic medical imaging (e.g., searching for a cancer) and airport baggage security screening (e.g., searching for a weapon), which are characterized by low-prevalence targets and potentially dire consequences of target misses. Previous work on low-prevalence visual search indicates that individuals who spontaneously respond more slowly miss fewer targets, which has been attributed to higher quitting thresholds predicting better performance. Previous aging research indicates that older adults typically respond more slowly across multiple task contexts. This has been attributed to both intrinsic limit

SUBMITTER: Goodhew SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11358340 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature