Components of the Location Probability Effect in Visual Search Tasks

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1988, Pages 453-471

  Miller, Jeff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; HUMAN; LEARNING; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REACTION TIME;

ATTENTION; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBABILITY LEARNING; REACTION TIME; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0024060795     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.14.3.453     Document Type: Article

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