“novelty” feature or the learning of new basic features.
However, looking at the same results, Malinowski
and Hübner (2001) can argue in their abstract that their
data “are also compatible with the idea that letters are standard
or basic features, which implies that basic features
can be learned” (pp. 458). Search asymmetries continue to
provide puzzles and clues that point us toward a clearer understanding
of preattentive processing and of visual search