Visual marking

Visual marking is demonstrated when observers,searching for a target, can ignore a previewed set of distractors (other items), effectively decreasing the number of relevant items in a difficult search display and thus speeding performance Watson and Humphreys (1997) described the phenomena and they and other researchers have more recently investigated visual marking for continuously moving items, finding that shared features, and preserved inter-item spatial relationships, are helpful.

Papers

 * Jacobsen, T., Humphreys, G. W. Schr Ger, E. & Roeber, U.(2002) Visual Marking For Search: Behavioral And Event-Related Brain Potential Analyses. Cognitive Brain Research 14 (3): 410-421.
 * Kunar, M., Humphreys, G. W. & Smith, K. J.(2002). Visual Change With Moving Displays: More Evidence For Color Feature Map Inhibition During Preview Search. Journal Of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception And Performance.
 * Kunar, M., Humphreys, G. W., Smith, K. J. & Watson, D. G. (2002). When Re-Appearance Is Old News: Visual Marking Survives Occlusion. Journal Of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception And Performance.


 * Olivers, C. N. L. & Humphreys, G. W. (2002). Visual Marking And Singleton Capture: Fractionating The Unitary Nature Of Visual Selection. Cognitive Psychology.

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