Visual search for dimensionally redundant pop-out targets: Evidence for parallel-coactive processing of dimensions

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 901-917

  Krummenacher, Joseph ^a   Müller, Hermann J ^b,c   Heller, Dieter ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0035407934     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194446     Document Type: Article

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