Journal article
Are attentional dwell times inconsistent with serial visual search?
Psychonomic bulletin & review, Vol.3(3), pp.360-365
09/1996
DOI: 10.3758/BF03210761
PMID: 24213938
Abstract
Duncan, Ward, and Shapiro (1994) estimated that attention must remain focused on an object for several hundred milliseconds before being shifted to another object, and they referred to this period as the attentional dwell time. An important implication of these long estimates of the dwell time for models of visual search is that the search process must not involve an item-by-item serial scanning mechanism. If it did, then searching through an array of items would require enormous amounts of time, which -based on data from visual search experiments - it does not. The present report, however, provides evidence that the long estimates of attentional dwell time were caused, at least in part, by the use of masked targets. Implications of these variable estimates of the attentional dwell time for models of visual search are discussed.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Are attentional dwell times inconsistent with serial visual search?
- Creators
- Cathleen M MooreHoward EgethLyndon R BerglanSteven J Luck
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Psychonomic bulletin & review, Vol.3(3), pp.360-365
- DOI
- 10.3758/BF03210761
- PMID
- 24213938
- NLM abbreviation
- Psychon Bull Rev
- ISSN
- 1069-9384
- eISSN
- 1531-5320
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/1996
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Injury Prevention Research Center
- Record Identifier
- 9984213269602771
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