Can multiple-target search paradigms reliably discriminate serial and parallel search processes?
Distinguishing between serial and parallel processing modes in visual search tasks remains a challenge in cognitive psychology. The multiple target search (MTS) paradigm, which utilizes target redundancy gains to identify parallel searches, is currently one of the promising approaches for this disti...
| Publicado en: | Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Vol. 79; no. 4; pp. 1036 - 1050 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Apr2026
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