Publications by authors named "Wanyi Lyu"

It is well known that humans have a massive memory for pictures and scenes. They show an ability to encode thousands of images with only a few seconds of exposure to each. In addition to this massive memory for "what" observers have seen, three experiments reported here show that observers have a "spatial massive memory" (SMM) for "where" stimuli have been seen and a "temporal massive memory" (TMM) for "when" stimuli have been seen.

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: Automated breast ultrasound (ABUS) presents three-dimensional (3D) representations of the breast in the form of stacks of coronal and transverse plane images. ABUS is especially useful for the assessment of dense breasts. Here, we present the first eye tracking data showing how radiologists search and evaluate ABUS cases.

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In visual search tasks, responses to targets on one trial can influence responses on the next trial. Most typically, target repetition speeds response while switching to a different target slows response. Such "priming" effects have sometimes been given very significant roles in theories of search (e.

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How does the prevalence of a target influence how it is perceived and categorized? A substantial body of work, mostly in visual search, shows that a higher proportion of targets are missed when prevalence is low. This classic low prevalence effect (LPE) involves a shift to a more conservative decision criterion that makes it less likely that observers will call an ambiguous item a target. In contrast, Levari et al.

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