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Fig. 2 | Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications

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From: From “satisfaction of search” to “subsequent search misses”: a review of multiple-target search errors across radiology and cognitive science

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A. Attentional Template Theory Tenets. The tenets of the Attentional Template theory were motivated by the SSM error literature and the broader visual working memory, attention, and visual search literature (see Tenets 1, 2, and 3 subsections below). B. Time Course of the Fluctuation of Working Memory and Attentional Resources. The battery illustration depicts the capacity limitations of visual working memory and attention. The double-sided arrows between the batteries illustrate the flow of a shared cognitive resource that underlies both visual working memory and attention, and that when one cognitive process is prioritized, the remaining cognitive process is hindered. After first target detection, visual working memory resources are prioritized to maintain the first target as an attentional template. Consequently, there are fewer attentional resources available, which will overall decrease the probability of additional target detection. Detection for similar targets after detecting a first target will be better compared to dissimilar targets because a first target attentional template will prime attention towards similar targets. Over time the first target may lose its prioritization as the attentional template, which will free up visual working memory resulting in improved and unbiased detection for similar and dissimilar targets

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