?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=An+Experimental+Research+on+Search+Order+Based+on+Contour+(in+Chinese)&rft.creator=Shao%2C+Z.+F.&rft.creator=Wang%2C+X.+J.&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.description=Contour+is+an+important+cue+for+pattern+recognition.+Further+feature+search+may+have+something+to+do+with+contour%2C+which+is+produced+by+parallel+processing.+In+this+research%2C+3+experiments+were+undertaken+to+explore+the+effects+of+contour+on+searching+sequence.+Experiment+1+aims+at+confirming+the+key+role+of+contour+in+visual+search.+It%E2%80%99s+results+show+that+there+exists+mental+representation+of+potential+targets+in+visual+search.+Experiment+2+aims+to+verify+the+hypothesis+that+the+new+features+produced+by+two+figures%E2%80%99+overlapping+will+accelerate+visual+search.+The+results+show+that+although+the+figures%E2%80%99+overlapping+may+produce+new+features%2C+these+byproducts+may+not+make+search+faster.+An+alternative+hypothesis+was+introduced+that+contour+has+effects+on+searching+sequence.+On+the+basis+of+contour%2C+the+search+of+distinct+features+follows+this+order%3A+in+the+outer+band+of+contour----along+contour----in+the+inner+band+of+contour.+Experiment+3+tests+this+hypothesis+further.&rft.date=2006&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5662%2F1%2FAn_Experimental_Research_on_Search_Order_Based_on_Contour.pdf&rft.identifier=++Shao%2C+Z.+F.+and+Wang%2C+X.+J.++(2006)+An+Experimental+Research+on+Search+Order+Based+on+Contour+(in+Chinese).++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5662%2F