Zenger, Barbara and Fahle, Manfred (2000) Performance asymmetries in visual search demonstrate failure of independent-processing models. Vision Research, 40 (19). pp. 2677-96. ISSN 0042-6989. doi:10.1016/S0042-6989(00)00116-4. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20130816-103240195
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Abstract
We report psychophysical data from orientation-popout experiments that are inconsistent with a rather general decision model. Stimuli consisted of 121 line segments arranged on an 11×11 grid. There were two tasks: in the 1-Singleton Task all lines except one had the same orientation, and observers had to report which quadrant contained the singleton. In the 3-Singleton Task three quadrants contained orientation singletons and observers had to identify the quadrant without singleton. These tasks can be viewed as asymmetric search tasks, in which either a singleton-quadrant has to be found among three homogeneous quadrants, or a homogeneous quadrant has to be found among three singleton-quadrants. Using tools from signal-detection theory we show that the large performance asymmetries between 1-Singleton and 3-Singleton Tasks are inconsistent with any model that makes two (very basic and common) assumptions: (1) independent processing of the four quadrants and (2) an ideal-observer decision. We conclude that at least one of the two assumptions is inadequate. As a plausible reason for the model failure we suggest a global competition between salient elements that reduces popout strength when more than one singleton is present.
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Additional Information: | Received 28 June 1999; received in revised form 12 January 2000. © 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. We would like to thank Marc Repnow for developing the C library that was used in these experiments, and for his assistance in various computer-related problems; Christoph Zenger for stimulating discussions and an outline of the proof presented in Appendix A; and Steffen Egner and Oliver Landolt for their comments on an earlier version of this manuscript. Financial support was provided by the German Research Council (DFG: Forschergruppe Neuroophthalmologie and SF13 517) and by Caltech’s Division of Biology. | |||||||||
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Subject Keywords: | Human psychophysics; Modeling; Visual search; Performance asymmetry; Signal detection theory | |||||||||
Issue or Number: | 19 | |||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/S0042-6989(00)00116-4 | |||||||||
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Official Citation: | Barbara Zenger, Manfred Fahle, Performance asymmetries in visual search demonstrate failure of independent-processing models, Vision Research, Volume 40, Issue 19, September 2000, Pages 2677-2696, ISSN 0042-6989, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0042-6989(00)00116-4. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042698900001164) | |||||||||
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Deposited On: | 05 Feb 2008 23:45 | |||||||||
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