Keywords
perception
visual processing
eye movements
attention
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Abstract
Visual search tasks, that are based on the recognition of either a characteristic or an specific visual stimulus, have contributed to the development of psychological research. By doing a narrative review of the ways to carry out these tasks, and considering their usages as factors that instrumentalise research, several paradigms emerge so as to understand multiple psychological processes. It has been manifested that visual search tasks can imply eye-movement recordings as well as operationalizing systems connected to the modulation of both attentional and perceptual processes, which are essentially aligned with exogenous rewards. These rewards, added to some processes related to the adaptation to the environment, are incorporated in such a way that the notion of perception to action is enforced.
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