Limited-capacity mechanisms of visual discrimination

Vision Research

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 375-385

  Greenlee, Mark W ^a   Magnussen, Svein ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Divided attention; Perceptual discrimination; Short term memory; Spatial frequency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ERROR; FEMALE; GRATING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032008298     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(97)00161-2     Document Type: Article

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