Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

The goal of the study was to compare potential changes in architecture when different set sizes were manipulated as afunction of age difference and reading group difference in the Visual Search Task in Coglab. Based on the RT performanceof Chinese EFLs aged 11 15 years old in feature and conjunction search when target was absent/present across threedifferent set sizes (display size 4, 16 & 64), we conducted tests for architecture, stopping rule and dependency in visualsearch between typical and poor readers. What we are interested in are as follows: First, how a parallel/serial mentalarchitecture in visual search might be predicted by both item features and person characteristics; and second, if stoppingrule in target absent search is self-terminating/ exhaustive in nature. The aim of the study was to find cognitive behaviourthat would accommodate developmental deficiency in EFL reading.