TY - JOUR
T1 - Guided visual search in individuals with mental retardation
AU - Carlin, Michael T.
AU - Soraci, Sal A.
AU - Dennis, Nancy A.
AU - Strawbridge, Christina
AU - Chechile, Nicholas A.
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - The ability of individuals with mental retardation to focus on task-relevant elements of complex visual arrays and increase visual-search efficiency was investigated. Initial assessments of visual-search efficiency were conducted to identify pairs of features for the form and size dimensions for which each participant demonstrated serial search. Subsequently, color was added as a defining feature that could guide search to a subset of the elements in the array. Results indicated that all of the individuals with mental retardation were able to limit attention to the task-relevant items on the guided search task, thus greatly reducing overall target identification times. Results show that individuals with mental retardation can demonstrate sophisticated visual selective attention skills when visual arrays are structured appropriately.
AB - The ability of individuals with mental retardation to focus on task-relevant elements of complex visual arrays and increase visual-search efficiency was investigated. Initial assessments of visual-search efficiency were conducted to identify pairs of features for the form and size dimensions for which each participant demonstrated serial search. Subsequently, color was added as a defining feature that could guide search to a subset of the elements in the array. Results indicated that all of the individuals with mental retardation were able to limit attention to the task-relevant items on the guided search task, thus greatly reducing overall target identification times. Results show that individuals with mental retardation can demonstrate sophisticated visual selective attention skills when visual arrays are structured appropriately.
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U2 - 10.1352/0895-8017(2002)107<0237:GVSIIW>2.0.CO;2
DO - 10.1352/0895-8017(2002)107<0237:GVSIIW>2.0.CO;2
M3 - Article
C2 - 12069643
AN - SCOPUS:0036314680
SN - 0895-8017
VL - 107
SP - 237
EP - 251
JO - American Journal on Mental Retardation
JF - American Journal on Mental Retardation
IS - 4
ER -