Categorical effects in visual search for colour
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Daoutis, Christine A., Pilling, Michael and Davies, Ian R. L. (2006) Categorical effects in visual search for colour Visual Cognition, 14 (2). pp. 217-240. ISSN 1350-6285
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Abstract
The role of categorization in visual search was studied in 3 colour search experiments where the target was or was not linearly separable from the distractors. The linear separability effect refers to the difficulty of searching for a target that falls between the distractors in CIE colour space (Bauer, Jolicoeur, & Cowan, 1996b). Observers performed nonlinearly separable searches where the target fell between the two types of distractors in CIE colour space. When the target and distractors fell within the same category, search was difficult. When they fell within three distinct categories, response times and search slopes were significantly reduced. The results suggest that categorical information, when available, facilitates search, reducing the linear separability effect.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | This is an author-prepared version of an article published in Visual Cognition, 14, 217-240. © 2006, Psychology Press. Click here to access the publisher's version. |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences > Psychology |
| ID Code: | 1723 |
| Deposited By: | Mr Adam Field |
| Deposited On: | 27 May 2010 15:43 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2012 12:49 |
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