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ERIC Number: EJ1466167
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Dec
Pages: 22
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EISSN: EISSN-2365-7464
Available Date: 2025-04-05
One Factor to Bind Them All: Visual Foraging Organization to Predict Patch Leaving Behavior with ROC Curves
Marcos Bella-Fernández1,2,3; Manuel Suero Suñé1; Alicia Ferrer-Mendieta1; Beatriz Gil-Gómez de Liaño1
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, v10 Article 16 2025
Predicting quitting rules is critical in visual search: Did I search enough for a cancer nodule in a breast X-ray or a threat in a baggage airport scanner? This study examines the predictive power of search organization indexes like best-r, mean ITD, PAO, or intersection rates as optimal criteria to leave a search in foraging (looking for several targets among distractors). In a sample of 29 adults, we compared static and dynamic foraging. Also, we reanalyze data from diverse foraging tasks in the lifespan already published to replicate results. Using ROC curves, all results consistently show that organization measures outperform classic intake rates commonly used in animal models to predict optimal human quitting behavior. Importantly, a combination of organization and traditional intake rates within a unitary factor is the best predictor. Our findings open a new research line for studying optimal decisions in visual search tasks based on search organization.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Spain (Madrid)
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Author Affiliations: 1Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain; 2UNIE Universidad, Madrid, Spain; 3Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, Madrid, Spain