ArticleBehavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)2026
What Makes Joint Visual Search Efficient? A Distractor Suppression Account.
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Visual search is thought to operate via a priority map that weights targets against distractors. Any process that modulates the weight assigned to distractors can influence search efficiency. Prior work on joint visual search has examined how distractors matching a partner's target receive enhanced weighting and impair individual performance. The present study asks instead whether the items the partner must reject are processed more efficiently in a joint context, thereby improving individual search efficiency. One possible account is enhanced distractor suppression, on which such items are down-weighted more effectively when another person is rejecting them concurrently. Participants searched shared multi-item displays for color-defined targets, and search slopes (response time per item) were analyzed with linear mixed-effects models. Experiment 1 (
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