Search images not proven: A reappraisal of recent evidence
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2021, Biochemical and Biophysical Research CommunicationsCitation Excerpt :Priming describes a process in which exposure to a particular stimulus alters stored mental representations of an object, which in turn influences future perception [117] and prepares an organism to search for a target. Priming can influence the development of a search image or search template, which allows an organism to look selectively for specific features or locations of a target object [143], and to readily ignore non-matching stimuli (but see Ref. [144]). A mechanistic example can be found in dragonflies, where neurons selectively tuned for detecting small targets are more sensitive to movement occurring ahead of the target, thereby indicating attention is modulated by the location in which priming takes place [145].
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2018, BioSystemsCitation Excerpt :Several contemporary ethologists apply the term in a similar, limited sense, e.g. related to “selective attention” in predators’ perception of prey (Langley, 1996; Cross and Jackson, 2009). Guilford and Dawkins (1987) called for more specific experimental evidence for the existence of search images. Such evidence has been presented for example in Dukas and Kamil (2001).
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2016, Ecological ModellingCitation Excerpt :Also, if all neurobiological states are weak, it may be adaptive for the animal not to focus its attention. This has been termed ‘routinized behaviour’ by Guilford and Dawkins (1987), and can technically be seen as yet another GOS. Giske et al. (2013) modelled spatial behaviour of an open-ocean midwater fish using the proximate architecture framework.
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2010, Advances in Insect PhysiologyCitation Excerpt :These hypotheses differ on one important point: the search image hypothesis supposes that the construction of the search image provokes a reduced ability of detecting any other prey type, conspicuous or other equally cryptic prey types. Such an interference is not assumed by the search-rate hypothesis (Guilford and Dawkins, 1987; Punzalan et al., 2005). Only the search image process can produce frequency-dependent selection, which does not mean it actually does.