Visual search for dimensionally redundant pop-out targets: Redundancy gains in compound tasks

Visual Cognition

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 801-837

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

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

EID: 0036798302     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280143000269     Document Type: Article

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