Visual search of good and poor readers: Effects with targets having single and combined features

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 84, Issue 3 PART 2, 1996, Pages 1155-1167

  Casco, Clara ^a   Prunetti, Elena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD; COLOR VISION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; READING;

ATTENTION; CHILD; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; READING;

EID: 0030157855     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.1996.82.3c.1155     Document Type: Article

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