Search for feature and for relative position: Measurement of capacity limitations

Vision Research

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1321-1327

  Põder, Endel ^a  

^a TALLINN PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Attention; Discrimination threshold; Relative position; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0142104359     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(98)00253-3     Document Type: Article

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