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Participants find it no harder to search for a T among Ls when the items move around at velocities of up to 10.8°/sec than when the items remain static. This result demonstrates that inhibitory tagging of locations is not necessary for successful search, and it provides a challenge to any models of visual search that use a fixed location as the index during accumulation and storage of information about search items.
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Hulleman, J. No need for inhibitory tagging of locations in visual search. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 16, 116–120 (2009). https://doi.org/10.3758/PBR.16.1.116
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