Serial and parallel processing of visual feature conjunctions

@article{citeulike:2742829, author = {Nakayama, Ken and Silverman, Gerald H. }, citeulike-article-id = {2742829}, comment = {Recounts a set of visual search experiments whereby human subjects search for targets defined along one dimension or two among the following: depth (stereoscopic disparity), color, or motion (each target and distractor was an aperture with a field of dots moving within it). While, in accordance with earlier data from Treisman, most subjects could search for a target defined along a single dimension in a parallel fashion, i.e. not affected by the number of targets, a two-dimensionally defined target required serial search except in the case of color and stereoscopic disparity. Thus, Nakayama and Silverman presume that search can be conducted in parallel along different depth planes. This indicates that figure-ground separation plays a key role in forming the fundamental `units' of vision preattentively, as predicted by FACADE theory. }, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/320264a0}, journal = {Nature}, keywords = {psychology, psychophysics}, month = {March}, number = {6059}, pages = {264--265}, posted-at = {2008-07-29 17:00:19}, priority = {0}, title = {Serial and parallel processing of visual feature conjunctions}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/320264a0}, volume = {320}, year = {1986} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2742829 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2742829 IS - 6059 JF - Nature EP - 265 TI - Serial and parallel processing of visual feature conjunctions VL - 320 SP - 264 KW - psychology KW - psychophysics N1 - Recounts a set of visual search experiments whereby human subjects search for targets defined along one dimension or two among the following: depth (stereoscopic disparity), color, or motion (each target and distractor was an aperture with a field of dots moving within it). While, in accordance with earlier data from Treisman, most subjects could search for a target defined along a single dimension in a parallel fashion, i.e. not affected by the number of targets, a two-dimensionally defined target required serial search except in the case of color and stereoscopic disparity. Thus, Nakayama and Silverman presume that search can be conducted in parallel along different depth planes. This indicates that figure-ground separation plays a key role in forming the fundamental `units' of vision preattentively, as predicted by FACADE theory. AU - Nakayama, Ken AU - Silverman, Gerald PY - 1986/03/20/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/320264a0 ER -