Individual Differences in Visual Search and Foraging in children

Quirós-Godoy, María; Pérez-Hernández, Elena; Cain, Matthew S.; Wolfe, Jeremy M.; Liaño, Beatriz Gil-Gómez de

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“…This finding suggests that the extended run behavior found in our original work [24]which has been replicated a number of times, both by our group [50][51][52] and others [53][54][55][56]does not rely exclusively on the feature/conjunction manipulation. Rather, it implies that this manipulation interacts with other aspects of the task design and/or display characteristics to constrain foraging behavior.…”

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A serious game to explore human foraging in a 3D environment

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Traditional search tasks have taught us much about vision and attention. Recently, several groups have begun to use multiple-target search to explore more complex and temporally extended "foraging" behaviour. Many of these new foraging tasks, however, maintain the simplified 2D displays and response demands associated with traditional, single-target visual search. In this respect, they may fail to capture important aspects of real-world search or foraging behaviour. In the current paper, we present a serious game for mobile platforms, developed in Unity3D, in which human participants play the role of an animal foraging for food in a simulated 3D environment. Game settings can be adjusted, so that, for example, custom target and distractor items can be uploaded, and task parameters, such as the number of target categories or target/distractor ratio are all easy to modify. We are also making the Unity3D project available, so that further modifications can also be made. We demonstrate how the app can be used to address specific research questions by conducting two human foraging experiments. Our results indicate that in this 3D environment, a standard feature/conjunction manipulation does not lead to a reduction in foraging runs, as it is known to do in simple, 2D foraging tasks.

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Age differences in foraging and executive functions: A cross-sectional study

Ólafsdóttir

Gestsdóttir

Kristjánsson

2020

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

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Visual foraging tasks require participants to search for multiple targets among numerous distractors. Foraging paradigms enable insights into the function of visual attention above what has been learned from traditional single target search paradigms. These include attentional orienting over time and search strategies involving target selection from different target types. To date, only a handful of studies have been conducted on the development of foraging abilities. Here, the foraging of five age groups, children aged six, nine, twelve, and fifteen, and adults, was measured, as well as their performance on various tasks assessing four subdomains of executive functions; inhibition, attentional flexibility, working memory, and problem solving. Executive functions consist of a complex network of independent but

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The development of foraging organization

Ólafsdóttir

Gestsdóttir

Kristjánsson

2021

Atten Percept Psychophys

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In foraging tasks multiple targets must be found within a single display. The targets can be of one or more types, typically surrounded by numerous distractors. Visual attention has traditionally been studied with single target search tasks but adding more targets to the search display results in several additional measures of interest, such as how attention is oriented to different features and locations over time. We measured foraging among five age groups:Children in grades 1, 4, 7, and 10, as well as adults, using both simple feature foraging tasks and more challenging conjunction foraging tasks, with two target types per task. We assessed participants' foraging organization, or systematicity when selecting all the targets within the foraging display, on four measures: Intertarget distance, number of intersections, best-r, and

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Individual Differences in Visual Search and Foraging in children

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A serious game to explore human foraging in a 3D environment

A serious game to explore human foraging in a 3D environment

Age differences in foraging and executive functions: A cross-sectional study

The development of foraging organization

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