The effect of adapting luminance on the latency of visual search

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 115-139

  Dawson, Michael R W ^a   Thibodeau, Mike H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; Luminance; Search

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; STATISTICAL MODEL; VISION; VISUAL ADAPTATION;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; ATTENTION; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LIGHTING; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032116050     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0001-6918(98)00007-9     Document Type: Article

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