Object features, object locations, and object files: Which does selective attention activate and when?

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1387-1400

  Lamy, Dominique ^a,b   Tsal, Yehoshua ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0034241617     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.26.4.1387     Document Type: Article

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