Limitations of rapid parallel processing in the detection of long and short oriented line targets

Spatial Vision

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 485-497

  Doherty, Laura M ^a   Foster, David H ^b  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPLAY DEVICES; IMAGE PROCESSING; OPTICAL DEVICES; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ORIENTED LINE TARGETS; PARALLEL PROCESSING; PREATTENTIVE VISION; VISUAL SEARCH;

VISION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; LEARNING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; HUMANS; LEARNING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0033201444     PISSN: 01691015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156856899X00274     Document Type: Article

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