Visual search and tracking tasks

A target must be found among, or followed through, a field of distractors; search slopes, detection accuracy or tracking capacity are the measures.

This family contains 4 tasks.

Task	Short definition	Processes
Contextual Cueing Task	Visual search in which some distractor configurations repeat across blocks; faster search on repeated configur…	4
Multiple Object Tracking Task	Participants track a subset of identical moving objects among distractors for several seconds; tracking accura…	5
Useful Field of View Task	Brief central identification combined with peripheral localization under increasing distractor and divided-att…	5
Visual Search Task	Detection of a target in a display of distractors; search slopes across set size dissociate feature (parallel)…	5

Assignments marked for review

The filing of these tasks is a judgement call; the note says why they are here and where else they could go.

Task	Note
Contextual Cueing Task	Visual search with repeated layouts; the learning could argue for conditioning and implicit learning