Prevalence Effects in Visual Search: Theoretical and Practical Implications
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Summary
The goal is to look for qualitative differences in visual search behavior when one search is performed many times in a row compared to when multiple search tasks are intermixed. Four search tasks are tested. In the Mixed condition, the four tasks are randomly changed from trial to trial. In the Blocked condition, each task is run as a block of 100 trials.
Description
NOTE: This registration is linked to a Human Subjects registration in ASSIST. That, in turn, is part of an NCI Grant, R01EY017001. The grant describes many proposed experiments and notes that many others might be done as follow-up studies. At the suggestion of the NIH, the investigators grouped these studies into several "studies", each covering multiple experiments. The experiment described here is part of Aim 1 of R01EY017001. It is not possible to register a set of experiments through the PRS system in CT.gov and it is not possible to file an annual report for the grant (RPPR) without an NC…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 18+ years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria: * Pass Ishihara color vision test Exclusion Criteria: * vision less than 20/25 with correction * history of neuromuscular or visual disorders
Interventions
- BehavioralMixed trials
All tasks will be randomly mixed in a single block of 400 trials.
- BehavioralBlocked Trials
Each search task will be presented in a block of trials.
Location
- Brigham & Women's HospitalBoston, Massachusetts