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NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
Volume 1, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s41562-017-0058
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- NCI NIH HHS [R01 CA207490] Funding Source: Medline
- NEI NIH HHS [R01 EY017001] Funding Source: Medline
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How do we find what we are looking for? Even when the desired target is in the current field of view, we need to search because fundamental limits on visual processing make it impossible to recognize everything at once. Searching involves directing attention to objects that might be the target. This deployment of attention is not random. It is guided to the most promising items and locations by five factors discussed here: bottom-up salience, top-down feature guidance, scene structure and meaning, the previous history of search over timescales ranging from milliseconds to years, and the relative value of the targets and distractors. Modern theories of visual search need to incorporate all five factors and specify how these factors combine to shape search behaviour. An understanding of the rules of guidance can be used to improve the accuracy and efficiency of socially important search tasks, from security screening to medical image perception.
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