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@ARTICLE{Green:280291,
author = {Green, Matthew and Segen, Vladislava and Korstjens, Amanda
and Meso, Andrew Isaac and Thomas, Tessa and Wiener, Jan M},
title = {{F}oraging with your eyes: a novel task to study cognitive
strategies involved in (visual) foraging behaviour.},
journal = {Cognitive processing},
volume = {26},
number = {3},
issn = {1612-4782},
address = {Berlin},
publisher = {Springer},
reportid = {DZNE-2025-00946},
pages = {541 - 554},
year = {2025},
abstract = {In this study we introduce a new gaze-contingent visual
foraging task in which participants searched through an
environment by looking at trees displayed on a computer
screen. If the looked-at tree contained a fruit item, the
item became visible and was collected. In each trial, the
participant's task was to forage for a defined number of
fruit items. In two experiments, fruit items were either
randomly distributed about the trees (dispersed condition)
or organised in one large patch (patchy condition). In the
second experiment, we addressed the role of memory for
foraging by including a condition that did not require
memorising which trees had already been visited by changing
their appearance (tree fading). Foraging performance was
superior in the patchy as compared to the dispersed
condition and benefited from tree-fading. In addition, with
further analyses on search behaviour, these results suggest
(1) that participants were sensitive to the distribution of
resources, (2) that they adapted their search/foraging
strategy accordingly, and (3) that foraging behaviour is in
line with predictions derived from foraging theories,
specifically area-restricted search, developed for large
scale spatial foraging. We therefore argue that the visual
search task presented shares characteristics and cognitive
mechanisms involved in successful large-scale search and
foraging behaviour and can therefore be successfully
employed to study these mechanisms.},
keywords = {Humans / Male / Female / Young Adult / Adult / Visual
Perception: physiology / Cognition: physiology / Attention:
physiology / Photic Stimulation / Eye-tracking (Other) /
Foraging (Other) / Resource distribution (Other) / Search
(Other) / Visual search (Other)},
cin = {AG Wolbers},
ddc = {150},
cid = {I:(DE-2719)1310002},
pnm = {353 - Clinical and Health Care Research (POF4-353)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-353},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:39982677},
doi = {10.1007/s10339-025-01261-0},
url = {https://pub.dzne.de/record/280291},
}