@article{10.1167/15.3.9,
    author = {Zhang, Xuetao and Huang, Jie and Yigit-Elliott, Serap and Rosenholtz, Ruth},
    title = "{Cube search, revisited}",
    journal = {Journal of Vision},
    volume = {15},
    number = {3},
    pages = {9-9},
    year = {2015},
    month = {03},
    abstract = "{ Observers can quickly search among shaded cubes for one lit from a unique direction. However, replace the cubes with similar 2-D patterns that do not appear to have a 3-D shape, and search difficulty increases. These results have challenged models of visual search and attention. We demonstrate that cube search displays differ from those with “equivalent” 2-D search items in terms of the informativeness of fairly low-level image statistics. This informativeness predicts peripheral discriminability of target-present from target-absent patches, which in turn predicts visual search performance, across a wide range of conditions. Comparing model performance on a number of classic search tasks, cube search does not appear unexpectedly easy. Easy cube search, per se, does not provide evidence for preattentive computation of 3-D scene properties. However, search asymmetries derived from rotating and/or flipping the cube search displays cannot be explained by the information in our current set of image statistics. This may merely suggest a need to modify the model's set of 2-D image statistics. Alternatively, it may be difficult cube search that provides evidence for preattentive computation of 3-D scene properties. By attributing 2-D luminance variations to a shaded 3-D shape, 3-D scene understanding may slow search for 2-D features of the target. }",
    issn = {1534-7362},
    doi = {10.1167/15.3.9},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.1167/15.3.9},
    eprint = {https://arvojournals.org/arvo/content\_public/journal/jov/933691/i1534-7362-15-3-9.pdf},
}