Does Consistent Scene Context Facilitate Object Perception?

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 398-415

  Hollingworth, Andrew ^a   Henderson, John M ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RECALL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0032238309     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-3445.127.4.398     Document Type: Article

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