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Those pernicious items

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 May 2017

Ruth Rosenholtz
Ruth Rosenholtz*
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Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139. rruth@mit.edu http://persci.mit.edu/people/rosenholtz
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Abstract

Hulleman & Olivers (H&O) identify a number of problems with item-based thinking and its impact on our understanding of visual search. I detail ways in which item-thought is worse than the authors suggest. I concur with the broad strokes of the theory they set out, and also clarify the relationship between their view and our recent theory of visual search.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e154
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