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Perception and human information processing in visual search (2015)
Book Chapter
Cain, M. S., Clark, K., Cain, M., & Mitroff, S. R. (2015). Perception and human information processing in visual search. In R. R. Hoffman, P. A. Hancock, M. W. Scerbo, R. Parasuraman, & J. L. Szalma (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Applied Perception Research (199-217). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511973017.016

© Cambridge University Press 2015. Visual search is the process of finding specific target items within an environment using particular visual features or prior knowledge. Searches can be as easy as finding your friend with purple hair in a lecture h... Read More about Perception and human information processing in visual search.

Overcoming hurdles in translating visual search research between the lab and the field (2012)
Book Chapter
Cain, M. S., Clark, K., Adamo, S. H., & Mitroff, S. R. (2012). Overcoming hurdles in translating visual search research between the lab and the field. In M. D. Dodd, & J. H. Flowers (Eds.), The Influence of Attention, Learning, and Motivation on Visual Search (147-181). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4794-8_7

Research in visual search can be vital to improving performance in careers such as radiology and airport security screening. In these applied, or "field," searches, accuracy is critical, and misses are potentially fatal; however, despite the importan... Read More about Overcoming hurdles in translating visual search research between the lab and the field.