{"pk":28677,"title":"Query-guided visual search","subtitle":null,"abstract":"How do we seek information from our environment to find solutions to the questions facing us? We pose an open-endedvisual search problem to adult participants, asking them to identify targets of questions in scenes guided by only an in-complete question prefix (e.g. Why is..., Where will...). Participants converged on visual targets and question completionsgiven just these function words, but the preferred targets and completions for a given scene varied dramatically dependingon the query. We account for this systematic query-guided behavior with a model linking conventions of linguistic refer-ence to abstract representations of scene events. The ability to predict and find probable targets of incomplete queries maybe just one example of a more general ability to pay attention to what problems require of their solutions, and to use thoserequirements as a helpful guide in searching for solutions.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0bv5j581","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Junyi","middle_name":"","last_name":"Chu","name_suffix":"","institution":"Massachusetts Institute of Technology","department":""},{"first_name":"Jon","middle_name":"","last_name":"Gauthier","name_suffix":"","institution":"Massachusetts Institute of Technology","department":""},{"first_name":"Roger","middle_name":"","last_name":"Levy","name_suffix":"","institution":"Massachusetts Institute of Technology","department":""},{"first_name":"Josh","middle_name":"","last_name":"Tenenbaum","name_suffix":"","institution":"Massachusetts Institute of Technology","department":""},{"first_name":"Laura","middle_name":"","last_name":"Schulz","name_suffix":"","institution":"Massachusetts Institute of Technology","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-01T21:00:00+03:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28677/galley/18548/download/"}]}