Reducing uncertainty in visual search through the priming of visual-relatedness and the manipulation of observer expectancy

Superior Visual Search Accuracy after Exposure to Natural Relative to Urban Environments

“…Visual search is one of a number of psychological constructs that can be influenced by experimental priming manipulations. Priming manipulations that have influenced visual search vary in range from verbal to visual primes (for examples, see Chiao, Heck, Makayama, & Ambady, 2006;Hailston & Davis, 2006;Kristjánsson & Campana, 2010;Kunar & Humphreys, 2006;Laarni & Nyman, 1997;Lamy, Carmel, Egeth, & Leber, 2006;Lavie & Fox, 2000;Linnell & Humphreys, 2007;Rice, Clayton, Trafimow, Keller, & Hughes, 2008;Soto & Humphreys, 2006). The impact of priming on conjunctive visual search may be somewhat underestimated (Kristjánsson, Wang, & Nakayama, 2002).…”

The effects of private and collective self‐priming on visual search: Taking advantage of organized contextual stimuli

“…Oftentimes, it is possible to affect visual search performance via priming participants (Kunar & Humphreys, 2006; Lamy, Carmel, Egeth, & Leber; 2006; Linnell & Humphreys, 2007). Some primes that have been used in the past include visual‐relatedness (Hailston & Davis, 2006), shape‐priming (Laarni & Nyman, 1997), verbal primes (Soto & Humphreys, 2007), and many others (Chiao, Heck, Makayama, & Ambady, 2006; Lavie & Fox, 2000; Soto & Humphreys, 2006). Typically, these primes involve some aspect of the visual system itself, and are directly related to the visual cognitive process such as ‘imagining’ what the target or prime looks like or having the description of the target or prime read out loud (Soto & Humphreys, 2007).…”

Effect of time pressure and target uncertainty on human operator performance and workload for autonomous unmanned aerial system

“…Research conducted on UAS operation found that participants rarely utilized the automation, even when time pressure was added and workload was increased (Ruff et al, 2004). The effects of time pressures have been addressed in human factors literature, including the effects on performance and workload (Hughes and Babski-Reeves, 2005;Svenson, 1997;Burke et al, 2007;Glade, 2000), and the effect with the assistance of decision aids (Sarter et al, 2001;Hailston and Davis, 2006), however, there is very limited research existing for the specific effect of time pressure on UASs.…”