False Pop Out

A single, unique target often pops out quickly and efficiently from a field of homogenous distractors in visual search. Pop out has helped shape theories of visual attention and feature integration as well as to identify basic features in human vision. Here we report a new phenomenon, false pop out,...

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Published in:Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance 2015-12, Vol.41 (6), p.1623-1633
Main Authors: Orsten-Hooge, Kimberley D., Portillo, Mary C., Pomerantz, James R.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Attention
Attention - physiology
Color Perception - physiology
Distraction
Experimental psychology
Female
Gestalt Psychology
Human
Humans
Male
Pattern Recognition, Visual - physiology
Photic Stimulation - methods
Reaction Time - physiology
Stimulus
Visual Attention
Visual perception
Visual Search
Visual searching
Visual task performance
Young Adult
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Summary:A single, unique target often pops out quickly and efficiently from a field of homogenous distractors in visual search. Pop out has helped shape theories of visual attention and feature integration as well as to identify basic features in human vision. Here we report a new phenomenon, false pop out, wherein one of the homogenous distractors competes with the singleton target to pop out, perhaps by breaking an overall grouping or pattern emerging from the display. We show the effect occurs with more than 1 type of stimulus, and we discuss the implications of such a counterintuitive finding for theories of visual search.
ISSN:0096-1523
1939-1277
DOI:10.1037/xhp0000077