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  • Visual search is crucial for information gathering.
  • Traditional studies often use tasks with fixed goals, minimizing memory demands.
  • Dynamic visual search requires continuous memory updating.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the interplay between memory and perception in dynamic visual search.
  • To understand how observers balance scanning and memorization strategies.
  • To examine how perceptual availability influences this balance.

Main Methods:

  • Two visual search tasks were employed: eye-tracking and mouse-tracking.
  • Participants compared simultaneously presented object arrays for matching items.
  • Task versions manipulated perceptual availability and scanning ease.

Main Results:

  • In the eye-tracking version (high perceptual availability), observers favored scanning.
  • In the mouse-tracking version (limited perceptual availability), observers increased memory reliance.
  • A flexible interplay between memory and perception was demonstrated.

Conclusions:

  • Visual search strategies dynamically adapt based on perceptual constraints.
  • Memory and perception are not independent but flexibly interact.
  • Findings bridge research in attention and memory, informing cognitive models.