PSYC 330 Lecture Notes - Visual Search, Visual Cortex, Feature Integration Theory
3 Dec 2013
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Spotlight almost like a spot welder, what the spotlight does is it glues together important feature information. (all the features of an object, size, color etc). This is for a target that is hard to find. Easy search and hard search, maybe the easy search involves something called parallel search, and hard search might involve serial search. Eye movements and attention as well, visual search involves eye movements. Part 4 why do we move our eyes. Part 6 attention disengages during some types of eye movements. All lectures on visual search changed after this puzzle came out. It really helped explain why some things are hard to find and some things easier to find than others. if something is easier to find, its because it has a unique feature and it stands out. Hard to find objects require a lot of our attention!
