Efficient visual search by category: Specifying the features that mark the difference between artifacts and animals in preattentive vision

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 676-697

  Levin, Daniel T ^a   Takarae, Yukari ^a   Miner, Andrew G ^b   Keil, Frank ^c  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CLASSIFICATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VISION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VISION;

EID: 0035348512     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194429     Document Type: Article

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