The Influence of Attention, Learning, and Motivation on Visual Search

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Dodd, Michael D. (Editor), Flowers, John H. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Nebraska Symposium on Motivation,
• Subjects: Psychology.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Cognitive psychology.; Cognitive Psychology.; Learning & Instruction.; Personality and Social Psychology.

Visual search is one of our most ubiquitous activities, as anyone who has had a “Where’s my car?” moment can attest. Attending to relevant stimuli while screening out distractions requires a complex set of interactions between visual, neurological, and behavioral processes. While recent years have s...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Searching in Space and in Time
• Automatic Control of Visual Selection
• Guidance of Visual Search by Memory and Knowledge
• Reward and Attentional Control in Visual Search
• Statistical Learning and its Consequences
• Overcoming Hurdles in Translating Visual Search Research Between the Lab and the Field.-When Do I Quit? The Search Termination Problem in Visual Search.