Visual accommodation and visual images: Do attentional factors mediate the interacting effects of perceived distance, mental workload, and stimulus presentation modality?

Human Factors

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 374-381

  Edgar, Graham K ^a   Reeves, Christopher A ^a  

^a BAE SYSTEMS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MENTAL TASK; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL REALITY; WORKLOAD; ADULT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER INTERFACE; FEMALE; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; VISION;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031283304     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/001872097778827179     Document Type: Article

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