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Target familiarity and visual working memory do not influence familiarity effect in visual search
Familiarity effect refers to the phenomenon that searching for a novel target among familiar distractors is more efficient than that searching for a familiar target among novel distractors. While the familiarity of distractors is considered as a key role on familiarity effect, the familiarity of tar...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8027860/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33828108 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-86669-2 |
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author | Guo, Zhihan Niu, Maolong Wang, Qi |
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description | Familiarity effect refers to the phenomenon that searching for a novel target among familiar distractors is more efficient than that searching for a familiar target among novel distractors. While the familiarity of distractors is considered as a key role on familiarity effect, the familiarity of targets contribute to this asymmetric visual search is unclear. The present study investigated how target familiarity influences visual search efficiency from the perspective of perceptual load. Experiment 1 using two similar Chinese characters (“甲” and “由”) suggested that searching for a familiar target from familiar distractors is an inefficient search process in Chinese context. Experiment 2 adopted a dual-task paradigm with a visual working memory task to increase the perceptual load and attempt to affect the efficiency of searching a novel target (mirrored “舌”) from familiar distractors (“舌”). Results demonstrated no difference in the search efficiency between single and dual-task conditions. The present study suggests that the familiarity of target does not influence the search efficiency with familiar distractors when involving semantic processing of Chinese characters. Additionally, the interference of extra working memory load would not impair the efficiency of searching target among familiar distractors, supporting the critical effect of distractor familiarity on the efficiency of visual search. |
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spelling | pubmed-80278602021-04-09 Target familiarity and visual working memory do not influence familiarity effect in visual search Guo, Zhihan Niu, Maolong Wang, Qi Sci Rep Article Familiarity effect refers to the phenomenon that searching for a novel target among familiar distractors is more efficient than that searching for a familiar target among novel distractors. While the familiarity of distractors is considered as a key role on familiarity effect, the familiarity of targets contribute to this asymmetric visual search is unclear. The present study investigated how target familiarity influences visual search efficiency from the perspective of perceptual load. Experiment 1 using two similar Chinese characters (“甲” and “由”) suggested that searching for a familiar target from familiar distractors is an inefficient search process in Chinese context. Experiment 2 adopted a dual-task paradigm with a visual working memory task to increase the perceptual load and attempt to affect the efficiency of searching a novel target (mirrored “舌”) from familiar distractors (“舌”). Results demonstrated no difference in the search efficiency between single and dual-task conditions. The present study suggests that the familiarity of target does not influence the search efficiency with familiar distractors when involving semantic processing of Chinese characters. Additionally, the interference of extra working memory load would not impair the efficiency of searching target among familiar distractors, supporting the critical effect of distractor familiarity on the efficiency of visual search. Nature Publishing Group UK 2021-04-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8027860/ /pubmed/33828108 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-86669-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Guo, Zhihan Niu, Maolong Wang, Qi Target familiarity and visual working memory do not influence familiarity effect in visual search |
title | Target familiarity and visual working memory do not influence familiarity effect in visual search |
title_full | Target familiarity and visual working memory do not influence familiarity effect in visual search |
title_fullStr | Target familiarity and visual working memory do not influence familiarity effect in visual search |
title_full_unstemmed | Target familiarity and visual working memory do not influence familiarity effect in visual search |
title_short | Target familiarity and visual working memory do not influence familiarity effect in visual search |
title_sort | target familiarity and visual working memory do not influence familiarity effect in visual search |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8027860/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33828108 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-86669-2 |
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