Major issues in the study of visual search: Part 2 of "40 Years of Feature Integration: Special Issue in Memory of Anne Treisman".

What it found

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Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Virtual Reality Gamification of Visual Search, Response Inhibition, and Visual Short-Term Memory Tasks for Cognitive Assessment: Experimental Study.JMIR formative research · 2025
   Trial
2. Covert-attention shifting superseded: Simple visual search explained by a computational cognitive architecture with early vision limitations, eye movements, and task strategies.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026
   Review
3. Great expectations: minor differences in initial instructions have a major impact on visual search in the absence of feedback.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2021
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