Matan's paper on second-order knowledge and visual search now out

Matan’s paper, “Efficient search termination without task experience” is now out in Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Matan used a novel one-trial many-subjects design to show that people are already efficient (fast) at recognising the absence of a target in an array of distractors without any prior experience. This shows that they have implicit second-order knowledge about visual search performance (they know that if a target had been present, they would have seen it quickly) before they even engage with a task