====== Search asymmetries?  What search asymmetries? ======
===== R. Rosenholtz =====

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===== Abstract =====
In order to establish a search asymmetry, one must run an experiment
with a symmetric design and get asymmetric results. Given an asymmetric
design, one expects asymmetric results and such results do not imply an
asymmetry in the search mechanisms. In this paper I argue that a number
of experiments purporting to show search asymmetries contain built-in
design asymmetries. A saliency model of visual search predicts the results
of these experiments using only a simple measure of target-distractor
similarity, without reliance on asymmetric search mechanisms. These
results have implications for search mechanisms and for other
experiments purporting to show search asymmetries.

===== Information =====


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title        : Search asymmetries? What search asymmetries?
authors      : R. Rosenholtz,
citation     : Perception & Psychophysics, 63(3), 476-489
shortcite    : Perception & Psychophysics
year         : 2001
created_dt   : 2001-01-01
keyword_tags : rosenholtz, search, visstat
www_url      :
pdf_url      : http://web.mit.edu/rruth/www/Papers/Asymmetries.pdf
pageid       : searchpsych01
type         : publication
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