Authors: Alastair D Smith Iain D Gilchrist Bruce M Hood Annette KarmiloffSmith
Publish Date: 2006/07/27
Volume: 7, Issue: 1, Pages: 93-94
Abstract
In order to efficiently search our surroundings we need to remember where we have previously been This issue has been explored in the visual search paradigm but there have been fewer attempts to address memory and search in largescale space This is partly because visual search has been seen to provide a constrained and welldefined context with which to study more general foraging eg Wolfe 1994 However in a largescale analogue of a typical visual search task Gilchrist et al 2001 found that rechecking of locations was relatively rare compared to those usually found in visual search It therefore seems that the visual search task does not adequately approximate largescale search Furthermore the effort required to search a potential target location may be a key factor Here we report two studies that further address the impact of memory on search efficiency in largescale space and how it relates to cognitive development In the first experiment children
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