6 monkeys were trained to search a visual display for a target stimulus. Their search time increased linearly with the number of irrelevant stimuli (N) and at 60 msec./item was comparable to the performance of man on similar tasks. Error scores were not linearly related to N, nor did they change in a systematic way as N increased.
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