This approach to visual search introduces the concepts of organization, variable field of view and congratulation. It builds upon ideas developed in glimpse/detection lobe models of visual search. It suggests experiments that go beyond an assessment of variables that affect visual search performance, in the hope that these will eventually lead to a comprehensive cognitive theory of visual search.
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