Book chapter
Getting beyond the serial/parallel debate in visual search: a hybrid approach
The Limits of Attention
Oxford University Press
10/18/2001
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198505150.003.0009
Abstract
The question of whether visual search involves at least one item-by-item
serial processing stage or whether instead it is an entirely parallel
process has been debated for decades. Recently, estimates of
‘attentional dwell-time’, which is the time required
to reallocate attention from one item to another, have been brought to bear
on this question. This chapter reviews this and other classes of evidence
that favor serial or parallel models of visual search, and concludes that
hybrid models that are neither strictly serial nor strictly parallel are
better candidates for describing human visual search. The chapter ends with
a sketch of one such model, and some of its possibilities.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Getting beyond the serial/parallel debate in visual search: a hybrid approach
- Creators
- Cathleen M MooreJeremy M Wolfe
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- The Limits of Attention
- DOI
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198505150.003.0009
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press; Oxford
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/18/2001
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Injury Prevention Research Center
- Record Identifier
- 9984213401402771
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