ArticleVision research2016
Hybrid foraging search: Searching for multiple instances of multiple types of target.
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- Generative modelling of continuous feature foraging reveals probabilistic representations of target distributions.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2026Article
- Mixed hybrid visual foraging is near optimal.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2025Article
- Investigating visual search mechanisms and enhancing the diagnostic potential of the trail making test using eTMT.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Understanding human visual foraging: a review.Biological cybernetics · 2025Review
- Risky hybrid foraging: The impact of risk, reward value, and prevalence on foraging behavior in hybrid visual search.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2025Article
- The effects of visual and auditory synchrony on human foraging.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2024Article
- The time course of visual foraging in the lifespan: Spatial scanning, organization search, and target processing.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2024Article
- The impact of clock timing on VDT visual search performance under time constraint.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- The association of targets modulates the search efficiency in multitarget searches.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2023Article
- Priming effects in inefficient visual search: Real, but transient.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2022Article
- Foraging behavior in visual search: A review of theoretical and mathematical models in humans and animals.Psychological research · 2022Review
- Foraging as sampling without replacement: A Bayesian statistical model for estimating biases in target selection.PLoS computational biology · 2022Article
- Target value and prevalence influence visual foraging in younger and older age.Vision research · 2021Article
- Guided Search 6.0: An updated model of visual search.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2021Review
- Implicitly and explicitly encoded features can guide attention in free viewing.Journal of vision · 2020Article
- Looking ahead: When do you find the next item in foraging visual search?Journal of vision · 2020Article
- Hybrid foraging search in younger and older age.Psychology and aging · 2019Article
- What do we know about volumetric medical image interpretation?: a review of the basic science and medical image perception literatures.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2019Review
- Using Eye Movements to Understand how Security Screeners Search for Threats in X-Ray Baggage.Vision (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Review
- Guidance and selection history in hybrid foraging visual search.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2019Article
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Abstract
This paper introduces the "hybrid foraging" paradigm. In typical visual search tasks, observers search for one instance of one target among distractors. In hybrid search, observers search through visual displays for one instance of any of several types of target held in memory. In foraging search, observers collect multiple instances of a single target type from visual displays. Combining these paradigms, in hybrid foraging tasks observers search visual displays for multiple instances of any of several types of target (as might be the case in searching the kitchen for dinner ingredients or an X-ray for different pathologies). In the present experiment, observers held 8-64 target objects in memory. They viewed displays of 60-105 randomly moving photographs of objects and used the computer mouse to collect multiple targets before choosing to move to the next display. Rather than selecting at random among available targets, observers tended to collect items in runs of one target type. Reaction time (RT) data indicate searching again for the same item is more efficient than searching for any other targets, held in memory. Observers were trying to maximize collection rate. As a result, and consistent with optimal foraging theory, they tended to leave 25-33% of targets uncollected when moving to the next screen/patch. The pattern of RTs shows that while observers were collecting a target item, they had already begun searching memory and the visual display for additional targets, making the hybrid foraging task a useful way to investigate the interaction of visual and memory search.
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