Searching through subsets: A test of the visual indexing hypothesis

Spatial Vision

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 225-258

  Burkell, Jacquelyn A ^a   Pylyshyn, Zenon W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SIZE PERCEPTION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

COLOR; IMAGE PROCESSING; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); OBJECT RECOGNITION;

DISTRACTORS; VISUAL INDEXING;

VISION;

EID: 0031283010     PISSN: 01691015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156856897X00203     Document Type: Article

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