Visual search for colour targets that are or are not linearly separable from distractors

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1439-1466

  Bauer, Ben ^a   Jolicoeur, Pierre ^a   Cowan, William B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Colour; Human vision; Linear separability; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION; COLOR VISION TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 0029865328     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(95)00207-3     Document Type: Article

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