The fully updated eighth edition of Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook provides
comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the key areas in the field ranging from visual …

Why do some social problems seem so intractable? In a series of experiments, we show that
people often respond to decreases in the prevalence of a stimulus by expanding their …

Theories of attention commonly refer to the “attentional template” as the collection of features
in working memory that represent the target of visual search. Many models of attention …

Examining eye-movement behavior during visual search is an increasingly popular
approach for gaining insights into the moment-to-moment processing that takes place when …

There has been an increasing drive to understand failures in searches for weapons and
explosives in X-ray baggage screening. Tracking eye movements during the search has …

The prevalence effect is a phenomenon whereby target prevalence impacts performance in
visual search (eg, baggage screening) and visual comparison (eg, face‐matching) tasks …

Critical real-world visual search tasks such as radiology and baggage screening rely on the
detection of rare targets. When targets are rare, observers search for a relatively short …

In visual search, relatively infrequent targets are more likely to be “missed,” a phenomenon
known as the low-prevalence effect (LPE). Across five experiments, we examined the LPE in …

Irrelevant salient distractors can trigger early quitting in visual search, causing observers to
miss targets they might otherwise find. Here, we asked whether task-relevant salient cues …

Abstract Domain-specific expertise changes the way people perceive, process, and
remember information from that domain. This is often observed in visual domains involving …