Molly R. McKinney, Heather A. Hansen, Jessica L. Irons, Andrew B. Leber
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ABSTRACT People exhibit vast individual variation in the degree to which they choose optimal attentional control strategies during visual search, although it is not well understood what predicts such variation. In the present study, we sought to determine whether markers of real-world achievement (assessed via undergraduate GPA) and cognitive ability (e.g., general fluid intelligence) could predict attentional strategy optimization (assessed via the Adaptive Choice Visual Search task; [Irons, J. L., & Leber, A. B. (2018). Characterizing individual variation in the strategic use of attentional control. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 44(10), 1637–1654]). Results showed that, while general cognitive ability predicted visual search response time and accuracy, neither achievement nor cognitive ability metrics could predict attentional strategy optimization. Thus, the determinants of attentional strategy remain elusive, and we discuss potential steps to shed light on this important research topic.
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Visual Cognition publishes new empirical research that increases theoretical understanding of human visual cognition. Studies may be concerned with any aspect of visual cognition such as object, face, and scene recognition; visual attention and search; short-term and long-term visual memory; visual word recognition and reading; eye movement control and active vision; and visual imagery. The journal is devoted to research at the interface of visual perception and cognition and does not typically publish papers in areas of perception or psychophysics that are covered by the many publication outlets for those topics.
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