Distractor heterogeneity, attention, and color in visual search

Vision Research

Volumn 43, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 1541-1552

  Nagy, Allen L ^a   Thomas, Gina ^a  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Color; Search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CELL HETEROGENEITY; COLOR VISION; COLORIMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0038054130     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(03)00234-7     Document Type: Article

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