A quantum-enhanced sensing technique based on two cavities coupled via a Josephson ring modulator is developed to substantially accelerate detection scan rate, ultimately boosting significantly the search of axions.

Following instruction in basic skills for electronic search, participants who practiced in a guided exploration mode developed stronger self-efficacy and greater satisfaction than those who practiced in a self-guided exploratory mode. Intrinsic motivation was not affected by exploration mode. On 2 post-training tasks, guided exploration participants produced more effective search strategies. ex...

Many foraging animals find food using composite random search strategies, which consist of intensive and extensive search modes. Models of composite search can generate predictions about how optimal foragers should behave in each search mode, and how they should determine when to switch between search modes. Most of these models assume that foragers use resource encounters to decide when to swi...

Bacon and Egeth (1994) have claimed that color singletons do not interfere with search for a shape singleton when, instead of using a singleton detection mode, participants are forced to use a feature search mode. Bacon and Egeth induced a feature search mode by adding different shape singletons to the display so that observers could not simply respond to uniqueness to find the target. We did e...

We tested a parallel neural network model of visual search, and found that it located targets more quickly when allowed to take several fast guesses. We suggest that this serially iterated parallel search may be the mode used by the visual system, in accord with theories such as the Guided Search model. Furthermore, in our model the most efficient mode of processing varied with the type of sear...

In a visual feature search task, reaction times to a singleton target are known to be shorter when participants have advance knowledge of the defining-features of targets. The present study examined whether the prior-knowledge effect is influenced by search modes (feature vs. singleton). In addition, using a variant of the flanker task, the present study assessed whether prior-knowledge affecte...