The time course of visual foraging in the lifespan: Spatial scanning, organization search, and target processing

Visual foraging is a variant of visual search, consisting of searching for an undetermined number of targets among distractors (e.g., looking for various LEGO pieces in a box). Under non-exhaustive tasks, the observer scans the display, picking those targets needed, not necessarily all of them, befo...

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Autores: Bella Fernández, Marcos, Suero Suñe, Manuel, Gil Gómez de Liaño, Beatriz
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:inglés
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https://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-023-02345-8
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Palabra clave:Foraging
Lifespan
Visual organization
Visual search
Psicología
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spelling The time course of visual foraging in the lifespan: Spatial scanning, organization search, and target processingBella Fernández, MarcosSuero Suñe, ManuelGil Gómez de Liaño, BeatrizForagingLifespanVisual organizationVisual searchPsicologíaVisual foraging is a variant of visual search, consisting of searching for an undetermined number of targets among distractors (e.g., looking for various LEGO pieces in a box). Under non-exhaustive tasks, the observer scans the display, picking those targets needed, not necessarily all of them, before leaving the search. To understand how the organization of such natural foraging tasks works, several measures of spatial scanning and organization have been proposed in the exhaustive foraging literature: best-r, intertarget distances, PAO, and target intersections. In the present study, we apply these measures and new Bayesian indexes to determine how the time course of visual foraging is organized in a dynamic non-exhaustive paradigm. In a large sample of observers (279 participants, 4–25 years old), we compare feature and conjunction foraging and explore how factors like set size and time course, not previously tested in exhaustive foraging, might afect search organization in non-exhaustive dynamic tasks. The results replicate previous fndings showing younger observers’ searching being less organized, feature conditions being more organized than conjunction conditions, and organization leading to a more efective search. Interestingly, observers tend to be less organized as set size increases, and search is less organized within a patch as it advances in time: Search organization decreases when search termination is coming, suggesting organization measures as potential clues to understand quitting rules in search. Our results highlight the importance of studying search organization in foraging as a critical source of understanding complex cognitive processes in visual searchOpen Access funding provided thanks to the CRUE-CSIC agreement with Springer Nature. This work was supported by the Research Grant Project PSI2015-69358-R (MINECO/FEDER) “Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad” (MINECO), and “Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional” (FEDER), given to Beatriz Gil-Gómez de Liaño as PI at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Also, part of the research of this study was done thanks to the Fulbright Commission, and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, under Grant FORAGEKID 793268, also granted to Beatriz Gil-Gómez de Liaño at the University of Cambridge, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and BWH-Harvard Medical SchoolSpringerDepartamento de Psicología Social y MetodologíaFacultad de Psicología20232023-08-24research articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10486/708679https://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-023-02345-8reponame:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAMinstname:Universidad Autónoma de MadridInglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/7086792026-06-23T12:46:27Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The time course of visual foraging in the lifespan: Spatial scanning, organization search, and target processing
title The time course of visual foraging in the lifespan: Spatial scanning, organization search, and target processing
spellingShingle The time course of visual foraging in the lifespan: Spatial scanning, organization search, and target processing
Bella Fernández, Marcos
Foraging
Lifespan
Visual organization
Visual search
Psicología
title_short The time course of visual foraging in the lifespan: Spatial scanning, organization search, and target processing
title_full The time course of visual foraging in the lifespan: Spatial scanning, organization search, and target processing
title_fullStr The time course of visual foraging in the lifespan: Spatial scanning, organization search, and target processing
title_full_unstemmed The time course of visual foraging in the lifespan: Spatial scanning, organization search, and target processing
title_sort The time course of visual foraging in the lifespan: Spatial scanning, organization search, and target processing
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Bella Fernández, Marcos
Suero Suñe, Manuel
Gil Gómez de Liaño, Beatriz
author Bella Fernández, Marcos
author_facet Bella Fernández, Marcos
Suero Suñe, Manuel
Gil Gómez de Liaño, Beatriz
author_role author
author2 Suero Suñe, Manuel
Gil Gómez de Liaño, Beatriz
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Departamento de Psicología Social y Metodología
Facultad de Psicología
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Foraging
Lifespan
Visual organization
Visual search
Psicología
topic Foraging
Lifespan
Visual organization
Visual search
Psicología
description Visual foraging is a variant of visual search, consisting of searching for an undetermined number of targets among distractors (e.g., looking for various LEGO pieces in a box). Under non-exhaustive tasks, the observer scans the display, picking those targets needed, not necessarily all of them, before leaving the search. To understand how the organization of such natural foraging tasks works, several measures of spatial scanning and organization have been proposed in the exhaustive foraging literature: best-r, intertarget distances, PAO, and target intersections. In the present study, we apply these measures and new Bayesian indexes to determine how the time course of visual foraging is organized in a dynamic non-exhaustive paradigm. In a large sample of observers (279 participants, 4–25 years old), we compare feature and conjunction foraging and explore how factors like set size and time course, not previously tested in exhaustive foraging, might afect search organization in non-exhaustive dynamic tasks. The results replicate previous fndings showing younger observers’ searching being less organized, feature conditions being more organized than conjunction conditions, and organization leading to a more efective search. Interestingly, observers tend to be less organized as set size increases, and search is less organized within a patch as it advances in time: Search organization decreases when search termination is coming, suggesting organization measures as potential clues to understand quitting rules in search. Our results highlight the importance of studying search organization in foraging as a critical source of understanding complex cognitive processes in visual search
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