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Direct linkSmith, J. David; Redford, Joshua S.; Washburn, David A.; Taglialatela, Lauren A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2005
Screeners at airport security checkpoints perform an important categorization task in which they search for threat items in complex x-ray images. But little is known about how the processes of categorization stand up to visual complexity. The authors filled this research gap with screening tasks in which participants searched for members of target…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Classification, Screening Tests, Security Personnel
