‘Target absent’ decisions in cancer nodule detection are more efficient than ‘target present’ decisions

T Crawford; Damien Litchfield; T Donovan

doi:10.1017/S0140525X16000066

‘Target absent’ decisions in cancer nodule detection are more efficient than ‘target present’ decisions

T Crawford, Damien Litchfield, T Donovan

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Many parts of the medical image are never fixated when a radiologist searches for cancer nodules. Experts are able to use peripheral vision very efficiently. The size of the functional visual field appears to increase according to the level of expertise. However, searching a medical image diverges, in a puzzling way, from the typical search for a target feature in the laboratory.

Original language	English
Journal	Behaviour and Brain Sciences
Volume	40
Issue number	e136
Early online date	24 May 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X16000066
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 24 May 2017

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