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Cognitive Neuroscience

University of Massachusetts Amherst

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2019

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Changes In Color Guidance Over The Course Of A Complex Visual Search, Ryan Papargiris Jul 2019

Changes In Color Guidance Over The Course Of A Complex Visual Search, Ryan Papargiris

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When searching for an object, we store a mental representation of the target, which guides our search through the use of attention. The effectiveness of this search guidance varies depending on the task and the relationship between target and distractors. With a better understanding of how search guidance changes over time within a trial, we can better compare the differences between experimental conditions. Eye tracking data from a variety of search tasks were analyzed to determine how color guidance varied over the course of the trial. Color guidance for a given fixation was evaluated based on the distance in color …