Target familiarity and visual working memory do not influence familiarity effect in visual search

Abstract Familiarity effect refers to the phenomenon that searching for a novel target among familiar distractors is more efficient than that searching for a familiar target among novel distractors. While the familiarity of distractors is considered as a key role on familiarity effect, the familiari...

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Main Authors: Zhihan Guo, Maolong Niu, Qi Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-04-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-86669-2