Using the Dual-Target Cost to Explore the Nature of Search Target Representations

Michael J. Stroud; Tamaryn Menneer; Kyle R. Cave; Nick Donnelly

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance Vol. 38, No. 1 (February 2012) pp. 113–122

Eye movements were monitored to examine search efficiency and infer how color is mentally represented to guide search for multiple targets. Observers located a single color target very efficiently by fixating colors similar to the target. However,...