Characteristics of attention and visual short-term memory: Implications for visual interface design

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 362, Issue 1825, 2004, Pages 2741-2759

  Davis, Greg ^a  

^a UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Binding; Ergonomics; Features; Magnocellular; Objects

Indexed keywords

EID: 10844281184     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2004.1462     Document Type: Article

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