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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Visual Perception
  • Human-Computer Interaction

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  • Missing visual information, like occlusion or gaps, hinders visual search and amodal completion.
  • Prior studies with simple stimuli showed occlusion disrupts feature search pop-out effects.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if feature search pop-out effects are absent for complex objects.
  • To examine the impact of occlusion and gaps on identity search.
  • To compare the disruptive effects of occlusion versus gaps in visual search tasks.

Main Methods:

  • Participants performed orientation and identity visual search tasks with and without occluders or gaps.
  • Bayesian analyses were used to determine the presence or absence of pop-out effects (search slopes).
  • Experiments involved simple and complex objects under varying visual disruption conditions.

Main Results:

  • Pop-out effects were observed for simple objects' orientation and identity when no visual disruptions were present.
  • Object complexity influenced identity search, with potential loss of pop-out for some complex objects.
  • White occluding bars were more disruptive than gaps for feature search, but not identity search.

Conclusions:

  • Pop-out effects are present for simple object visual search but are diminished by visual disruptions.
  • Increased task difficulty and object complexity exacerbate the negative impact of visual disruptions on search efficiency.
  • Real-world object search is highly sensitive to any form of visual disruption, affecting both feature and identity tasks.