Visual search asymmetry: The influence of stimulus familiarity and low-level features

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 464-475

  Shen, Jiye ^a   Reingold, Eyal M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; RECALL;

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0035319216     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194413     Document Type: Article

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