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Rare items often missed in visual searches

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  • Jeremy M. Wolfe

    (Visual Attention Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital
    Harvard Medical School)

  • Todd S. Horowitz

    (Visual Attention Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital
    Harvard Medical School)

  • Naomi M. Kenner

    (Visual Attention Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital)

Abstract

Errors in spotting key targets soar alarmingly if they appear only infrequently during screening.

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  • Jeremy M. Wolfe & Todd S. Horowitz & Naomi M. Kenner, 2005. "Rare items often missed in visual searches," Nature, Nature, vol. 435(7041), pages 439-440, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:435:y:2005:i:7041:d:10.1038_435439a
    DOI: 10.1038/435439a
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    3. Lara Christina Roll & Oi-ling Siu & Simon Y.W. Li & Hans De Witte, 2019. "Human Error: The Impact of Job Insecurity on Attention-Related Cognitive Errors and Error Detection," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 16(13), pages 1-61, July.
    4. Lanfang Zhang & Boyu Cui & Minhao Yang & Feng Guo & Junhua Wang, 2019. "Effect of Using Mobile Phones on Driver’s Control Behavior Based on Naturalistic Driving Data," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 16(8), pages 1-13, April.

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