Can the Relational Account predict search in multiple-element displays?

这个项目提供了一种引导视觉注意力的新机制的证据。我们的研究结果证实了一种机制的存在，这种机制可以快速、自动地评估视觉场景中的主要特征，并从根本上改变人们对目标物体的注意力。此外，当观察者在视觉搜索中搜索不同的项目时，这种注意力引导目标模板可能会发生系统的变化，这可能是由于目标模板的重新塑造和缩小。这些都是前所未有的突破性发现。该项目的工作有望带来重要的理论突破，解决当前文献中的差异，并推进认知心理学和神经科学的方法。

This project provides evidence of a novel mechanism that guides visual attention. Our results confirm the existence of a mechanism that can rapidly and automatically assess the dominant feature(s) in a visual scene and radically change how attention is tuned to a target object. Moreover, this attention-guiding target template can change systematically as observers search through different items in visual search, possibly due to a re-shaping and narrowing of the target template. These are both ground-breaking discoveries that have not been described before. Work on this project promises to lead to important theoretical breakthroughs, resolve current discrepancies in the literature and advance methods of Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience.