The effect of visualization on visual search performance

Clarke, Alasdair; Barr, Courtney; Hunt, Amelia R.

doi:10.3758/s13414-016-1174-8

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“…Several parallel results between visual imagery and visual perception have been reported recently. These imagery effects have been demonstrated in visual search (Cochrane, Nwabuike, Thomson, & Milliken, 2018; Cochrane, Zhu, & Milliken, 2018; Reinhart, McClenahan, & Woodman, 2015; though see Clarke, Barr, & Hunt, 2016), binocular rivalry (Chang, Lewis, & Pearson, 2013; Pearson, Clifford, & Tong, 2008; Pearson, Rademaker, & Tong, 2011) and object identification (Wantz, Borst, Mast, & Lobmaier, 2015; though see Cochrane, Siddhpuria, & Milliken, 2019).…”

Section: Using Visual Imagery To Study Repetition Effectsmentioning

confidence: 96%

The representational basis of positive and negative repetition effects.

Cochrane¹,

Milliken²

2020

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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Repetition of target features in the same spatial location can either benefit or impair performance in perceptual tasks. Moreover, which of these two effects occurs can depend on whether an intervening event is presented temporally between consecutive targets. Here, we explored these effects for color feature repetitions by varying the representational overlap of consecutive targets. The second target on all experimental trials was a simple perceptual color. The task and first target were manipulated to vary the representation produced in response to the first target (perceptual representation of color in Experiment 1; imagined representation of color in Experiments 2 and 5; conceptual representation of color in Experiment 3; color-unrelated representation in Experiment 4). Perceptual and imagined color representations for the first target produced a positive repetition effect when an intervening event did not appear between targets but produced a negative repetition effect when an intervening event did appear between targets. In contrast, conceptual color and color-unrelated representations produced a negative repetition effect both with and without an intervening event. These results suggest that positive repetition effects depend on consecutive targets that share visual representations, whereas negative repetition effects reflect a more complex relationship between stimulus and response features across targets. Public Significance StatementThis study demonstrates that color perception and color imagery can produce similar trial-to-trial repetition effects, with color repetition sometimes benefiting and other times impairing performance.A key finding is that positive repetition effects, but not the negative repetition effects, depend closely on consecutive targets sharing visual representations produced either by perceiving a color or imagining a color.

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Section: Using Visual Imagery To Study Repetition Effectsmentioning

confidence: 96%

The representational basis of positive and negative repetition effects.

Cochrane¹,

Milliken²

2020

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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“…When the distractors were not presented, participants did not need to imagine any stimuli except for a target, which led to a precise mental representation of a target in the perceptual training. Removing a salient distractor item in the search task also eliminated the search efficiency of imagery training (Clarke, Barr, & Hunt, 2016). Taken together, precise mental imagery of a target stimulus enhances attentional allocation to the target in a visual-search task.…”

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Visual mental imagery influences attentional guidance in a visual-search task

Moriya

2018

Atten Percept Psychophys

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Visual mental imagery resembles visual working memory (VWM). Because both visual mental imagery and VWM involve the representation and manipulation of visual information, it was hypothesized that they would exert similar effects on visual attention. Several previous studies have demonstrated that working-memory representations guide attention toward a memory-matching task-irrelevant stimulus during visual-search tasks. Therefore, mental imagery may also guide attention toward imagery-matching stimuli. In the present study, five experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of visual mental imagery on visual attention during a visual-search task. Participants were instructed to visualize a color or an object clearly associated with a specific color, after which they were asked to detect a colored target in the visual-search task. Reaction times for target detection were shorter when the color of the target matched the imagined color, and when the color of the target was similar to that strongly associated with the imagined object, than when the color of the target did not match that of the mental representation. This effect was not observed when participants were not instructed to imagine a color. These results suggest that similar to VWM, visual mental imagery guides attention toward imagery-matching stimuli.

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“…Second, there is little supporting evidence for the link between visualization and improved attention; importantly, some of the literature aiming to reinforce the findings of article 4 contradicts it. For instance, the preregistered failed replication and extension of article 4's experiments conducted by Clarke, Barr and Hunt (2016) showed repeated searching -not visualization -improved attention. Other factors to consider are generalization and feasibility.…”

Section: Qualitative Target Selectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

When and Why to Replicate: As Easy as 1, 2, 3?

Field

Hoekstra

Bringmann

et al. 2019

Collabra: Psychology

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The crisis of confidence in psychology has prompted vigorous and persistent debate in the scientific community concerning the veracity of the findings of psychological experiments. This discussion has led to changes in psychology's approach to research, and several new initiatives have been developed, many with the aim of improving our findings. One key advancement is the marked increase in the number of replication studies conducted. We argue that while it is important to conduct replications as part of regular research protocol, it is neither efficient nor useful to replicate results at random. We recommend adopting a methodical approach toward the selection of replication targets to maximize the impact of the outcomes of those replications, and minimize waste of scarce resources. In the current study, we demonstrate how a Bayesian re-analysis of existing research findings followed by a simple qualitative assessment process can drive the selection of the best candidate article for replication.

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The effect of visualization on visual search performance

Cited by 6 publications

References 13 publications

The representational basis of positive and negative repetition effects.

The representational basis of positive and negative repetition effects.

Visual mental imagery influences attentional guidance in a visual-search task

When and Why to Replicate: As Easy as 1, 2, 3?

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