Emergent features, attention, and object perception

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1984, Pages 12-31

  Treisman, Anne ^a   Paterson, Randolph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

holistic ; preattentive processes, perceptual processing of arrows ; their components, college students; triangles

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0021370034     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.10.1.12     Document Type: Article

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