The effect of familiarity on visual-search performance: Evidence for learned basic features

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 458-463

  Malinowski, Peter ^a,b   Hübner, Ronald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECALL;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 0035316959     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194412     Document Type: Article

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