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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Visual Perception
  • Human Factors

Background:

  • Salient distractors are known to impede visual search efficiency.
  • The precise mechanisms by which distractors induce premature search termination remain unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how salient distractors lead to early quitting in visual search tasks.
  • To understand the impact of distractors on eye movements, search area, and error types.

Main Methods:

  • Participants performed a visual search task, identifying target presence or absence.
  • Eye movements and search patterns were recorded.
  • Analysis focused on the relationship between distractor presence and search behavior.

Main Results:

  • Salient distractors reduced eye movements and the searched display area for target-absent responses.
  • Participants actively suppressed eye movements toward distractors.
  • Distractors increased both search errors (target never fixated) and decision errors (target fixated but undetected).

Conclusions:

  • Salient distractors trigger early quitting by diminishing information intake and disrupting search guidance.
  • Distractor avoidance does not prevent increased search errors.
  • Understanding these mechanisms is crucial for optimizing visual search strategies.