Visual search, a vital task for humans and animals, has also become a common and
important tool for studying many topics central to active vision and cognition ranging from …

Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis was introduced to the field of eyewitness
identification 5 years ago. Since that time, it has been both influential and controversial, and …

When people look for things in the environment, they use target templates—mental
representations of the objects they are attempting to locate—to guide attention and to assess …

Face recognition memory is often tested by the police using a photo lineup, which consists of
one suspect, who is either innocent or guilty, and five or more physically similar fillers, all of …

The visual system efficiently processes complex and redundant information in a scene
despite its limited capacity. One strategy for coping with the complexity and redundancy of a …

Historically, visual search models were mainly evaluated based on their account of mean
reaction times (RTs) and accuracy data. More recently, Wolfe, Palmer, and Horowitz (2010) …

In hybrid search, observers search for any of several possible targets in a visual display
containing distracting items and, perhaps, a target. Wolfe (2012) found that response times …

Ensemble representations have been considered as one of the strategies that the visual
system adopts to cope with its limited capacity. Thus, they include various statistical …

Covert attention allows the selection of locations or features of the visual scene without
moving the eyes. Cues and contexts predictive of a target's location orient covert attention …

The term visual attention immediately evokes the idea of limited resources, serial
processing, or a zoom metaphor. But evidence has slowly accumulated that computations …