"Bags, breasts, and lots of little cells: New adventures in visual search"
Modern civilization has created many demanding, socially important visual search tasks. These include airport baggage screening and many medical diagnostic procedures (mammography, cervical cancer screening, etc.). We perform these tasks with brains built for other tasks like foraging for food and recognizing scenes. The collision of these tasks and our brains produces a variety of interesting problems. What happens when you search for something that is very rare? Do expert searchers develop the ability to find complex targets in a single glance? My talk will focus on a series of problems with one foot in the lab and one foot in the real world.