TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - On the speed of pop-out in feature search
JO  - Journal of experimental psychology: human perception and performance
A1  - Turatto, Massimo
A1  - Valsecchi, Matteo
A1  - Seiffert, Adriane E.
A1  - Caramazza, Alfonso
SP  - 1145
EP  - 1152
VL  - 36
IS  - 5
N2  - When something unique is present in a scene, this element may become immediately visible and one has the impression that it pops out from the scene. This phenomenon, known as pop-out in the visual search literature, is thought to produce the fastest search possible, and response times for the detection of the pop-out target do not vary as a function of the number of nontargets. In this study, we challenge this notion and show that the detection of a given visual feature is faster for multiple targets than for a single pop-out target. However, when the task requires a detailed target analysis, the pop-out condition can be faster than the multiple-target condition. Current models of visual search are discussed in light of the findings. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0096-1523
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0019960
ID  - ref1
ER  -