Preattentive object files: Shapeless bundles of basic features

Vision Research

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 25-43

  Wolfe, Jeremy M ^a   Bennett, Sara C ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOMENCLATURE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION;

ADULT; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031034195     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(96)00111-3     Document Type: Article

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