| Reference code: | PT/FB/BL-2008-141.02 |
| Location: | Arquivo PCA - Pasta 18/2008
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Title:
| A bayesian optimal foraging model of human visual search
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| Publication year: | 2012
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Institution(s):
| http://mattcain.com/papers/Cain_Vul_Clark_Mitroff_inpress.pdf
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| URL: | Visitante: / http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/08/05/0956797612440460.abstract
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| Abstract/Results: | ABSTRACT:
Real-world visual searches often contain a variable and unknown number of targets. Such searches present difficult metacognitive challenges, as searchers must decide when to stop looking for additional targets, which results in high miss rates in multiple-target searches. In the study reported here, we quantified human strategies in multiple-target search via an ecological optimal foraging model and investigated whether searchers adapt their strategies to complex target-distribution statistics. Separate groups of individuals searched displays with the number of targets per trial sampled from different geometric distributions but with the same overall target prevalence. As predicted by optimal foraging theory, results showed that individuals searched longer when they expected more targets to be present and adjusted their expectations on-line during each search by taking into account the higher-order, across-trial target distributions. However, compared with modeled ideal observers, participants systematically responded as if the target distribution were more uniform than it was, which suggests that training could improve multiple-target search performance.
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| Accessibility: | Document exists in file (previous version submitted for publication)
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Copyright/Reproduction:
| By permission
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Language:
| eng
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Author:
| Vul, E.
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Secondary author(s):
| Cain, M., Clark, K., Mitroff, S.
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Document type:
| Article
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Number of reproductions:
| 1
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Percentiles:
| 93.49|3.06
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Reference:
| Cain, M., Vul, E., Clark, K., & Mitroff, S. (2012). A bayesian optimal foraging model of human visual search. Psychological Science, 23(9), 1047-1054. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797612440460 |
| Impact Factor: | 4.543|2012
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| Times cited: | 108|2026-02-05
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| Indexed document: | Yes
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| Quartile: | Q1
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| Keywords: | Visual search / Environmental effects
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A bayesian optimal foraging model of human visual search |