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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Visual Perception
  • Metacognition

Background:

  • Visual search research has long identified factors influencing search speed, such as set size and luminance.
  • However, the metacognitive awareness of these influences on visual search performance remains unexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate participants' metacognitive awareness of factors affecting visual search speed.
  • To integrate a visual search task with a metacognitive monitoring paradigm.

Main Methods:

  • Participants completed a visual search task while their performance and metacognitive judgments were recorded.
  • Factors manipulated included set size, luminance, distractor proximity, and target presence.

Main Results:

  • All manipulated factors significantly impacted search latency (speed).
  • Metacognitive ratings were influenced by all factors except target presence, indicating a dissociation in awareness.
  • Saliency and suppression are proposed as explanatory mechanisms.

Conclusions:

  • Participants demonstrate limited metacognitive awareness regarding factors influencing their own visual search performance.
  • Findings suggest that awareness of search efficiency is not always aligned with objective performance changes.
  • Future research should explore saliency and suppression in visual search and metacognition.