Searching through the hierarchy: How level of target categorization affects visual search

Visual Cognition

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1153-1163

  Maxfield, Justin T ^a   Zelinsky, Gregory J ^a,b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

Basic level advantage; Categorical search; Category verification; Eye movements; Search guidance

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MENTAL TASK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY;

EID: 84873102864     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2012.735718     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Castelhano, M. S., Pollatsek, A., & Cave, K. 2008. Typicality aids search for an unspecified target, but only in identification, and not in attentional guidance. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 15, 795-801. doi:10.3758/PBR.15.4.795
2. Chen, X., & Zelinsky, G. J. 2006. Real-world visual search is dominated by top-down guidance. Vision Research, 46, 4118-4133. doi:10.1016/j.visres.2006.08.008
3. Foulsham, T., & Underwood, G. 2007. How does the purpose of inspection influence the potency of visual salience in scene perception? Perception, 36, 1123-1138. doi:10.1068/p5659
4. Johnson, K. E., & Mervis, C. B. 1997. Effects of varying levels of expertise on the basic level of categorization. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 126, 248-277. doi:10.1037//0096-3445.126.3.248
5. Mack, M. L., & Palmeri, T. J. 2011. The timing of visual object categorization. Frontiers in Perception Science, 2, 165 doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00165
6. Malcolm, G. L., & Henderson, J. M. 2009. The effects of target template specificity on visual search in real-world scenes: Evidence from eye movements. Journal of Vision, 9, 1-13. doi:10.1167/9.11.8
7. Murphy, G. L. 2002. The big book of concepts, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
8. Murphy, G. L., & Brownell, H. H. 1985. Category differentiation in object recognition: Typicality constraints on the basic category advantage. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 11, 70-84. doi:10.1037//0278-7393.11.1.70
9. Rosch, E. H., Mervis, C. B., Gray, W. D., Johnson, D. M., & Boyes-Braem, P. 1976. Basic objects in natural categories. Cognitive Psychology, 8, 382-439. doi:10.1016/0010-0285(76)90013-X
10. Schmidt, J., & Zelinsky, G. J. 2009. Search guidance is proportional to the categorical specificity of a target cue. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62, 1904-1914. doi:10.1080/17470210902853530
11. Schmidt, J., & Zelinsky, G. J. 2011. Visual search guidance is best after a short delay. Vision Research, 51, 535-545. doi:10.1016/j.visres.2011.01.013
12. Smith, J. D., Redford, J. S., Gent, L. C., & Washburn, D. A. 2005. Visual search and the collapse of categorization. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 134, 443-460. doi:10.1037/0096-3445.134.4.443
13. Snodgrass, J. G. and Vanderwart, M. 1980. A standardized set of 260 pictures: Normed for name agreement, image agreement, familiarity, and visual complexity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 6: 174-215. doi:10.1037/0278-7393.6.2.174
14. Tanaka, J. W., & Taylor, M. 1991. Object categories and expertise: Is the basic level in the eye of the beholder? Cognitive Psychology, 23, 457-482. doi:10.1016/0010-0285(91)90016-H
15. Wolfe, J. M., Horowitz, T. S., Kenner, N., Hyle, M., & Vasan, N. 2004. How fast can you change your mind? The speed of top-down guidance in visual search. Vision Research, 44, 1411-1426. doi:10.1016/j.visres.2003.11.024
16. Yang, H., & Zelinsky, G. J. 2009. Visual search is guided to categorically-defined targets. Vision Research, 49, 2095-2103. doi:10.1016/j.visres.2009.05.017