The development of foraging organization

In foraging tasks, multiple targets must be found within a single display. The can of one or more types, typically surrounded by numerous distractors. Visual attention has traditionally been studied with target search but adding to the display results in several additional measures interest, such as how is oriented different features and locations over time. We measured among five age groups: Children Grades 1, 4, 7, 10, well adults, using both simple feature tasks challenging conjunction two types per task. assessed participants’ organization, systematicity when selecting all display, on four measures: Intertarget distance, number intersections, best-r, percentage above optimal path length (PAO). that organization increases age, feature-based complex for defined conjunctions, was organized than foraging. Separate analyses indicated children’s, some extent adults’, consisted relatively paths through where type exhaustively selected before other selected. Lastly, we development closely related measures. Our suggest measuring promising avenue further research into visual orienting.