Battleship: A Study of Search Behavior

Effects of association value on perceptual search.

“…Efficient performance requires 5" to remember which areas have already been searched. However, even in an unhurried search situation, it has been shown that 5"s may re-search matrix cells (Hickey & Vegh, 1961). Thus, if the identity of the syllable occupying a given location is used as a tag to indicate that the location has already been examined, AV may well be a determinant of the degree of researching (and hence of search time) in view of the relation between AV and memory.…”