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Searching for two categories of target in dynamic visual displays impairs monitoring ability

Searching for two categories of target in dynamic visual displays impairs monitoring ability
Searching for two categories of target in dynamic visual displays impairs monitoring ability
Target onsets in dynamically changing displays can be predicted when contingencies exist between different stimulus states over time. In the present study, we examined predictive monitoring when participants searched dynamically changing displays of numbers and colored squares for a color target, a number target or both. Stimuli were presented in both contiguous and discrete spatial configurations. Response time (RT) and accuracy were recorded and evidence of predictive monitoring was assessed via first fixations and refixations of target-predictive stimuli. RTs to target onsets and evidence of predictive monitoring were reduced in dual-target, relative to single-target, conditions. Further, predictive monitoring did not speed RTs but was influenced by display configuration. In particular, discrete displays impaired monitoring for number targets in the dual-target condition. Implications exist for real-world visual tasks involving multiple target categories and for visual display design.
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Muhl-Richardson, Alexander
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Liversedge, Simon P
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Muhl-Richardson, Alexander, Cornes, Katherine, Godwin, Hayward, Garner, Matthew, Hadwin, Julie, Liversedge, Simon P and Donnelly, Nicholas (2018) Searching for two categories of target in dynamic visual displays impairs monitoring ability. Applied Cognitive Psychology. (doi:10.1002/acp.3416).

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Target onsets in dynamically changing displays can be predicted when contingencies exist between different stimulus states over time. In the present study, we examined predictive monitoring when participants searched dynamically changing displays of numbers and colored squares for a color target, a number target or both. Stimuli were presented in both contiguous and discrete spatial configurations. Response time (RT) and accuracy were recorded and evidence of predictive monitoring was assessed via first fixations and refixations of target-predictive stimuli. RTs to target onsets and evidence of predictive monitoring were reduced in dual-target, relative to single-target, conditions. Further, predictive monitoring did not speed RTs but was influenced by display configuration. In particular, discrete displays impaired monitoring for number targets in the dual-target condition. Implications exist for real-world visual tasks involving multiple target categories and for visual display design.

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Accepted/In Press date: 8 March 2018
e-pub ahead of print date: 8 May 2018

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Local EPrints ID: 419448
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/419448
ISSN: 0888-4080
PURE UUID: 5830e2d5-e96e-4b4e-98cb-f4abe57736d2
ORCID for Hayward Godwin: ORCID iD orcid.org/0009-0005-1232-500X
ORCID for Matthew Garner: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-9481-2226

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Author: Alexander Muhl-Richardson
Author: Katherine Cornes
Author: Hayward Godwin ORCID iD
Author: Matthew Garner ORCID iD
Author: Julie Hadwin
Author: Simon P Liversedge
Author: Nicholas Donnelly

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