The Contribution of Covert Attention to the Set-Size and Eccentricity Effects in Visual Search

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 673-692

  Carrasco, Marisa ^a   Yeshurun, Yaffa ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SIZE PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0032044408     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.24.2.673     Document Type: Article

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