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    "pk": 26961,
    "title": "Target-to-distractor similarity can help visual search performance",
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    "abstract": "We found an unexpected positive effect of target-to-distractorsimilarity (TD) in a visual search task, despite overwhelmingevidence in the literature that TD similarity hurts visual searchperformance. Participants with no prior knowledge of Chineseperformed 12 hour-long sessions over 4 weeks, where they hadto find a briefly presented target character among a set ofdistractors. At the beginning of the experiment, TD similarityhurt performance, but the effect reversed during the firstsession and remained positive throughout the remainingsessions. We present a simple connectionist model thataccounts for that reversal of TD similarity effects on visualsearch and we discuss possible theoretical explanations.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "visual search; learning; similarity; connectionistmodel; neural network"
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    "section": "Talks: Papers",
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Vencislav",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Popov",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Carnegie Mellon University",
            "department": ""
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        {
            "first_name": "Lynne",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Reder",
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            "institution": "Carnegie Mellon University",
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    "date_submitted": null,
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    "date_published": "2017-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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