Visual Foraging Flexibility: Behaviour Across Space, Time, and Modality
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Room: C-Building - N14
Chair/s:
Jan Tünnermann, Iris Wiegand
In visual foraging, people search continuously for multiple targets across space and time. Perceptual, attentional, and decision-making processes act together to efficiently collect visual targets from dynamic environments. This symposium addresses how flexibly humans adapt their behaviour in these complex search tasks akin to many real-world search scenarios. Thornton and Kristjánsson will discuss the impact of grouping on “foraging for change” when searching in time-varying environments. Kristjánsson et al. investigate whether cross-modal synchrony cues influence foraging. Sauter and Tünnermann demonstrate how statistical learning guides the discovery of spatiotemporal hotspots in dynamic foraging tasks, highlighting sensitivity to environmental regularities. Hughes and Clarke present advances in modelling foraging behaviour to capture the dynamics of target selection. Finally, Wiegand shows that a foraging task with memory load can uncover both cognitive impairments, as well as compensatory strategies, in patients with Korsakoff syndrome and alcohol use disorder. Together, these contributions demonstrate how adaptive foraging behaviour emerges in response to the complex demands of dynamic, interactive environments.