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It has been repeatedly demonstrated that when performing a visual search task, items can pop out of a display such that they are identified rapidly, independent of the number of distractors present. It has been less clear whether this type of pop-out is limited to static displays (e.g., images) or whether it can also occur in scenes containing movement, more akin to how we experience the real world. Recently, Jardine and Moore (Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 42, 617-630, 2016) examined whether pop-out also occurs in displays consisting of dynamic motionwherein items in the display rotated continuously until a critical frame that would elicit pop-out under static presentation conditionsand found that search was greatly impaired. It remains unclear, however, whether such impairment is exerted equivalently across all types of dynamic motions or if it is specific to orientation. In the present study, we replicate the original Jardine and Moore (Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 42, 617-630, 2016) finding and extend this examination to another dimensioncolor change. We also explore whether search efficiency can be improved with dynamic context if aspects of the display become predictable. The results suggest that not all types of dynamic change impair search performance. Specifically, oddball color targets continue to pop out even when the items in the display are dynamic. Interestingly, adding predictable context did not aid search accuracy as expected, rather resulting in poorer performance. Taken together, the findings suggest that the influence of dynamic context on search performance is not absolute.

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have witnessed a surge in overt and covert racist violence targeting East and Southeast Asian diasporic communities transnationally. This has taken a range of forms, from assaults on elders, to the shooting of Asian massage parlour workers, to maskaphobia – a term coined by Yinxuan Huang (Young, 2020) describing public assaults against masked Asians. The dominant framing of such events has been ‘hate crimes’, illustrated in the popular hashtag #StopAsianHate. This chapter analyses the reporting of ‘anti-Asian’ racism focusing in the Greater Toronto Area in conversation with international events and social media discourses. Weaving personal memories, storytelling, histories of anti-Asian racism on Canada-occupied Turtle Island, and academic/activist analysis, this chapter critically engages with maskaphobia and responses to ‘anti-Asian’ racism. Drawing on Haritaworn’s (2015) argument that ‘hate’ and ‘crime’ individualize and pathologize systemic violence, Thobani’s (2007) analysis of Canadian citizenship, and Lawrence and Dua’s (2005) articulation of settler of colour complicity, this chapter argues that carceral solutions and settler colonial nationalism inevitably empower white supremacist systems and centre settler colonial modes of belonging. Instead, Asian alignment and solidarity with movements for prison abolition and Indigenous decolonization are offered as alternative methods of seeking safety and collective liberation.

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