Efficiency and accuracy of visual search develop at different rates from early childhood through early adulthood

Autor: Jeremy M. Wolfe, Elena Pérez-Hernández, María Quirós-Godoy, Beatriz Gil-Gómez de Liaño
Přispěvatelé: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, UAM. Departamento de Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación, UAM. Departamento de Psicología Social y Metodología, Quirós-Godoy, María [0000-0002-6953-6255], Pérez-Hernández, Elena [0000-0001-8822-6423]
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
Male
Adolescents
Task (project management)
law.invention
0302 clinical medicine
law
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Cognitive development
Attention
adolescents
Function (engineering)
Child
Children
media_common
visual search
Visual search
4. Education
Brief Report
05 social sciences
Feature (computer vision)
Child
Preschool
Visual Perception
Female
Psychology
Cognitive psychology
Adult
Adolescent
Medicina
media_common.quotation_subject
Human Development
selective attention
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Development
050105 experimental psychology
03 medical and health sciences
Young Adult
Touchscreen
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
children
Executive function
Perception
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Set (psychology)
development
Psicología
executive function
Space Perception
Selective attention
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Psychomotor Performance
Zdroj: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Biblos-e Archivo: Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
ISSN: 1069-9384
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-020-01712-z
Popis: Most studies of visual search across the life span have focused on classic feature and conjunction searches in which observers search for a fixed, simple shape target among relatively homogeneous distractors over a block of multiple trials. In the present study, we examine a more realistic task in which participants (4 to 25 years-old) look for images of real objects, presented amongst a heterogeneous array of other objects. The target is unique on every trial, unlike in previous developmental studies of visual search. Our new touchscreen-based “Pirate-Treasure” search also allows the testing of younger children within a videogame-like task. With this method, we tested a large sample (n = 293) of typically developing children and young adults. We assessed the developmental course of different search metrics like search efficiency, motor response differences, and accuracy (misses and false-alarm errors). Results show the most rapid time courses in development for accuracy. Search slopes reach the young adult level most slowly. The intercepts of the Reaction Time (RT) × Set Size function are often attributed to nonsearch perceptual and motor components of the task. The intercept time course is intermediate between accuracy and slope. Interestingly, these developmental functions follow time courses proposed in neuropsychological models of executive function development. This suggests that a single, video-game-like search task could be useful in routine assessments of cognitive development
This work was supported by the Research Grant Project PSI2015-69358-R (MINECO/FEDER) “Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad” (MINECO), “Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional” (FEDER), given to Beatriz Gil-Gómez de Liaño as PI. 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 and BWH-Harvard Medical School, and by NIH EY017001 given to Jeremy M. Wolfe
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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