The way the cognitive system scans the visual environment for relevant information–visual
search in short–has been a long-standing central topic in vision science. From its inception …

We proposed to abandon the item as conceptual unit in visual search and adopt a fixation-
based framework instead. We treat various themes raised by our commentators, including …

Haptic guidance can be beneficial for aiding or training human users in many applications,
such as teleoperation, rehabilitation, and navigation. Existing world-grounded haptic …

Much of the evidence for theories in visual search (including Hulleman & Olivers'[H&O's])
comes from inferences made using changes in mean RT as a function of the number of …

In a haptic search task, one has to detect the presence of a target among distractors using
the sense of touch. A salient target can be detected faster than a non-salient target …

When studying visual search, item-based approaches using synthetic targets and distractors
limit the real-world applicability of results. Everyday visual search can be impaired in …

A unified account of visual search in complex everyday environments requires additional
deliberations on the functional grounding of Hulleman's and Olivers functional viewing field …

We show that our item-based model, competitive guided search, accounts for the empirical
patterns that Hulleman & Olivers (H&O) invoke against item-based models, and we highlight …

The item can only be dispensed within artificial tasks that, although useful in the lab, do not
reflect the real world. There, the attended item is the goal of search. Hulleman & …

Abstract Hulleman & Olivers (H&O) identify a number of problems with item-based thinking
and its impact on our understanding of visual search. I detail ways in which item-thought is …