Journal article
Task specificity and the influence of memory on visual search: comment on Võ and Wolfe (2012)
Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance, Vol.38(6), pp.1596-1603
12/2012
DOI: 10.1037/a0030237
PMCID: PMC3515208
PMID: 23205947
Abstract
Recent results from Võ and Wolfe (2012b) suggest that the application of memory to visual search may be task specific: Previous experience searching for an object facilitated later search for that object, but object information acquired during a different task did not appear to transfer to search. The latter inference depended on evidence that a preview task did not improve later search, but Võ and Wolfe used a relatively insensitive, between-subjects design. Here, we replicated the Võ and Wolfe study using a within-subject manipulation of scene preview. A preview session (focused either on object location memory or on the assessment of object semantics) reliably facilitated later search. In addition, information acquired from distractors in a scene-facilitated search when the distractor later became the target. Instead of being strongly constrained by task, visual memory is applied flexibly to guide attention and gaze during visual search.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Task specificity and the influence of memory on visual search: comment on Võ and Wolfe (2012)
- Creators
- Andrew Hollingworth - Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, 11 Seashore Hall E, IA City, IA 52242-1407, USA. andrew-hollingworth@uiowa.edu
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance, Vol.38(6), pp.1596-1603
- DOI
- 10.1037/a0030237
- PMID
- 23205947
- PMCID
- PMC3515208
- ISSN
- 0096-1523
- eISSN
- 1939-1277
- Grant note
- R01 EY017356 / NEI NIH HHS
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/2012
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984213279202771
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