Right place, right time: Spatiotemporal predictions guide attention in dynamic visual search.

ABSTRACT: Visual search is a fundamental element of human behavior and is predominantly studied in a laboratory setting using static displays. However, real-life search is often an extended process taking place in dynamic environments. We have designed a dynamic-search task in order to incorporate the temporal dimension into visual search. Using this task, we tested how participants learn and utilize spatiotemporal regularities embedded within the environment to guide performance. Participants searched for eight instances of a target that faded in and out of a display containing similarly transient distractors. In each trial, four of the eight targets appeared in a temporally predictable fashion with one target appearing in each of four spatially separated quadrants. The other four targets were spat

SUBMITTER: Boettcher SEP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8920297 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature