Visual Search Revived: The Slopes Are Not That Slippery: A Reply to Kristjansson (2015)

Kristjansson (2015) suggests that standard research methods in the study of visual search should be “reconsidered.” He reiterates a useful warning against treating reaction time x set size functions as simple metrics that can be used to label search tasks as “serial” or “parallel.” However, I argue that he goes too far with a broad attack on the use of slopes in the study of visual search. Used wisely, slopes do provide us with insight into the mechanisms of visual search.

• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  i-Perception

• Publication date

  2016-05-04

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1177/2041669516643244PMID 27433330PMCID 4934667
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