Feature asymmetries in visual search: effects of display duration, target eccentricity, orientation and spatial frequency.

Abstract:

:In Experiments 1-3, we monitored search performance as a function of target eccentricity under display durations that either allowed or precluded eye movements. The display was present either until observers responded, for 104 msec, or for 62 msec. In all three experiments an orientation asymmetry emerged: observers detected a tilted target among vertical distracters more efficiently than a vertical target among vertical distracters. As target eccentricity increased, reaction times and errors augmented, and the set size effect became more pronounced, more so for vertical than tilted targets. In Experiments 4-7, the stimulus spatial properties were manipulated: spatial frequency; size; and orientation. The eccentricity effect was more pronounced for vertical than tilted targets and for high- than low-spatial frequency targets. This effect was eliminated when either the size, the size and orientation, or the size and spatial frequency were magnified (M-cortical factor). By increasing the signal-to-noise ratio, magnification reduced the extent of both asymmetries; it aided more the detection of tilted than vertical and of high- than low-spatial frequency targets. Experiments 4-7 indicate that performance improvement in the magnified conditions was due to the specific pairing of stimulus size with retinal eccentricity and not to the larger stimulus size of the magnified conditions. We conclude that stimulus size, orientation and spatial frequency influence the extent of the eccentricity effect and the efficiency of search performance.

journal_name

Vision Res

journal_title

Vision research

authors

Carrasco M,McLean TL,Katz SM,Frieder KS

doi

10.1016/s0042-6989(97)00152-1

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1998-02-01 00:00:00

pages

347-74

issue

3

eissn

0042-6989

issn

1878-5646

pii

S0042-6989(97)00152-1

journal_volume

38

pub_type

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