Why search for target absence is so slow (and careful!): the more targets there are, the more likely you are to miss one.

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• Publication year

  1980

• Venue

  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

• Publication date

  1980-11-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Computer Science, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1037/0096-1523.6.4.662PMID 6449536
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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