Set size slope still does not distinguish parallel from serial search
Daniel R. Little, Ami Eidels, Joseph Woodworth Houpt, Cheng-Ta Yang · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 2017
Much of the evidence for theories in visual search (including Hulleman & Olivers' [H&O's]) comes from inferences made using changes in mean RT as a function of the number of items in a display. We have known for more than 40 years that these inferences are based on flawed reasoning and obscured by model mimicry. Here we describe a method that avoids these problems.