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ArticleCognitive research: principles and implications2021

When more is more: redundant modifiers can facilitate visual search.

Gwendolyn Rehrig, Reese A Cullimore, John M Henderson, Fernanda Ferreira

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Gwendolyn RehrigDepartment of Psychology, University of California, One Shields Ave, Davis, CA, 95616-5270, USA. glrehrig@ucdavis.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-5263-4924
Reese A CullimoreDepartment of Psychology, University of California, One Shields Ave, Davis, CA, 95616-5270, USA.
John M HendersonDepartment of Psychology, University of California, One Shields Ave, Davis, CA, 95616-5270, USA.
Fernanda FerreiraDepartment of Psychology, University of California, One Shields Ave, Davis, CA, 95616-5270, USA.

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Guiding Attention in Real-World ScenesR01EY027792 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI John M Henderson · 2017 to 2026
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NEI NIH HHS R01 EY027792
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Abstract

According to the Gricean Maxim of Quantity, speakers provide the amount of information listeners require to correctly interpret an utterance, and no more (Grice in Logic and conversation, 1975). However, speakers do tend to violate the Maxim of Quantity often, especially when the redundant information improves reference precision (Degen et al. in Psychol Rev 127(4):591-621, 2020). Redundant (non-contrastive) information may facilitate real-world search if it narrows the spatial scope under consideration, or improves target template specificity. The current study investigated whether non-contrastive modifiers that improve reference precision facilitate visual search in real-world scenes. In two visual search experiments, we compared search performance when perceptually relevant, but non-contrastive modifiers were included in the search instruction. Participants (N

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CommunicationLanguageHumansAdjectivesGricean maximsOverinformativityTemplate guidanceVisual search

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