Search of jumping items: visual marking and discrete motion.

Perception

Department of Psychology, 75 University Avenue West, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5, Canada.

Published: September 2003

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  • Watson and Humphreys (1997) demonstrated that observers can ignore distracting items while searching for a target, a phenomenon known as 'visual marking' that enhances performance by reducing relevant items.
  • Recent studies have explored visual marking in continuously moving items and found that shared features and spatial relationships play a crucial role in its effectiveness.
  • The current study tested visual marking with items that move in a single discrete jump, but found that marking did not occur, suggesting that the movement style may impact the effectiveness of visual marking.

Article Abstract

Watson and Humphreys (1997 Psychological Review 104 90-122) showed that when searching for a target, observers can ignore a previewed set of distractors (other items), effectively decreasing the number of relevant items in a difficult search display and thus speeding performance ('visual marking'). Other researchers have more recently investigated visual marking for continuously moving items, finding that shared features, and preserved inter-item spatial relationships, are helpful. Here, we tested whether visual marking occurs for a set of initial items that moves in one discrete jump (preserving shared features and inter-item spatial relationships). Marking did not occur in these displays, and we interpret this result in the context of previous research on visual marking.

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