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This allowed us to perform matched tests to compare the ways fish and humans scan stationary visual scenes. In humans, visual search is seen as a doorway to cortical mechanisms of how attention is allocated. Fish lack a cortex and we therefore wondered if archerfish would differ from humans in their ways they scan a stationary visual scene. Our matched tests failed to disclose any differences in the dependence of response time distributions, a most sensitive indicator of the search mechanism, on number and complexity of background objects. Median and range of response times depended linearly on the number of background objects and the corresponding effective processing time per item increased similarly - about fourfold - in both humans and fish when the task was harder. Archerfish, like humans, also systematically scanned the scenery, starting with the closest object. Taken together, benchmark visual search tasks failed to disclose any difference between archerfish - who lack a cortex - and humans.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1242\/jeb.087734","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2013,4,26]],"date-time":"2013-04-26T03:16:38Z","timestamp":1366946198000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":27,"title":["Visual search in hunting archerfish shares all hallmarks of human performance"],"prefix":"10.1242","author":[{"given":"Ingo","family":"Rischawy","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Bayreuth"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Stefan","family":"Schuster","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Bayreuth"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"237","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2013,1,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"2021042507010740500_R1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1167\/12.12.18","article-title":"Visual acuity in the archerfish: behavior, anatomy, and neurophysiology","volume":"12","author":"Ben-Simon","year":"2012","journal-title":"J. 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