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

Year: 2021

Type: review

Abstract: For over 50 years, the satisfaction of search effect has been studied within the field of radiology. Defined as a decrease in detection rates for a subsequent target when an initial target is found within the image, these multiple target errors are known to underlie errors of omission (e.g., a radiologist is more likely to miss an abnormality if another abnormality is identified). More recently, they have also been found to underlie lab-based search errors in cognitive science experiments (e.g., an observer is more likely to miss a target 'T' if a different target 'T' was detected). This phenomenon was renamed the subsequent search miss (SSM) effect in cognitive science. Here we review the SSM literature in both radiology and cognitive science and discuss: (1) the current SSM theories (i.e., satisfaction, perceptual set, and resource depletion theories), (2) the eye movement errors that underlie the SSM effect, (3) the existing efforts tested to alleviate SSM errors, and (4) the evolution of methodologies and analyses used when calculating the SSM effect. Finally, we present the attentional template theory, a novel mechanistic explanation for SSM errors, which ties together our current understanding of SSM errors and the attentional template literature.

Source: Cognitive Research Principles and Implications

DOI: 10.1186/s41235-021-00318-w

Authors: Stephen H. Adamo, Brian J. Gereke, Sarah Shomstein, Joseph Schmidt

Institutions: University of Central Florida, The University of Texas at Austin, George Washington University

Language: English

Topic: Radiology practices and education

Subfield: Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $1,490

Funders: National Science Foundation, Ford Foundation, National Eye Institute