No need for inhibitory tagging of locations in visual search

Abstract

Participants find it no harder to search for a T among Ls when the items move around at velocities of up to 10.8°/sec than when the items remain static. This result demonstrates that inhibitory tagging of locations is not necessary for successful search, and it provides a challenge to any models of visual search that use a fixed location as the index during accumulation and storage of information about search items. © 2009 The Psychonomic Society, Inc.