Active visual search in naturalistic environments reflects individual differences in classic visual search performance.

ABSTRACT: Visual search is a ubiquitous activity in real-world environments. Yet, traditionally, visual search is investigated in tightly controlled paradigms, where head-restricted participants locate a minimalistic target in a cluttered array that is presented on a computer screen. Do traditional visual search tasks predict performance in naturalistic settings, where participants actively explore complex, real-world scenes? Here, we leverage advances in virtual reality technology to test the degree to which classic and naturalistic search are limited by a common factor, set size, and the degree to which individual differences in classic search behavior predict naturalistic search behavior in a large sample of individuals (N = 75). In a naturalistic search task, participants looked for an object wi

SUBMITTER: Botch TL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9837148 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature