AUTHOR=Howe Piers D., Holcombe Alex O. TITLE=The Effect of Visual Distinctiveness on Multiple Object Tracking Performance JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=3 YEAR=2012 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00307 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00307 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=
Observers often need to attentively track moving objects. In everyday life, such objects are often visually distinctive. Previous studies have shown that tracking accuracy is increased when the targets contain a visual feature (e.g., a color) not possessed by the distractors. Conversely, a gain in tracking accuracy was not observed when the targets differed from the distractors by only a conjunction of features (Makovski and Jiang,