Abstract This paper describes Guided Search 6.0 (GS6), a revised model of visual search.
When we encounter a scene, we can see something everywhere. However, we cannot …

How do we find what we are looking for? Even when the desired target is in the current field
of view, we need to search because fundamental limits on visual processing make it …

Summary In Shakespeare's Henry IV Part 1, the Scottish rebel, the Earl of Douglas, engages
in a visual search task. He is searching for King Henry in a field full of soldiers who are not …

In the real world, objects never occur in isolation; they co-vary with other objects and
particular environments, providing a rich source of contextual associations to be exploited by …

Since its inception, the contextual cueing (CC) paradigm has generated considerable
interest in various fields of cognitive sciences because it constitutes an elegant approach to …

Recent research has expanded the list of factors that control spatial attention. Beside current
goals and perceptual salience, statistical learning, reward, motivation and emotion also …

Repeated contexts yield faster response time in visual search, compared with novel
contexts. This effect is known as contextual cueing. Despite extensive study over the past …

Many daily activities involve looking for something. The ease with which these searches are
performed often allows one to forget that searching represents complex interactions …

Although the use of semantic information about the world seems ubiquitous in every task we
perform, it is not clear whether we rely on a scene's semantic information to guide attention …

Even with great advances in machine vision, animals are still unmatched in their ability to
visually search complex scenes. Animals from bees [1, 2] to birds [3] to humans [4–12] learn …