The University of Queensland

Can the Relational Account predict search in multiple-element displays? (2024–2028)

Abstract:

This project provides evidence of a novel mechanism that guides visual attention. Our results confirm the existence of a mechanism that can rapidly and automatically assess the dominant feature(s) in a visual scene and radically change how attention is tuned to a target object. Moreover, this attention-guiding target template can change systematically as observers search through different items in visual search, possibly due to a re-shaping and narrowing of the target template. These are both ground-breaking discoveries that have not been described before. Work on this project promises to lead to important theoretical breakthroughs, resolve current discrepancies in the literature and advance methods of Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience.

Grant type:

ARC Discovery Projects

Researchers:

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  Associate Professor Stefanie Becker

  Associate Professor
  

  School of Psychology

  Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences

Funded by:

Australian Research Council