Processing of one, two or four natural scenes in humans: The limits of parallelism

Vision Research

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 877-894

  Rousselet, Guillaume A ^a,b   Thorpe, Simon J ^a   Fabre Thorpe, Michèle ^a  

^a Brain and Cognition Research Center in Toulouse   (France)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; Event related potentials (ERP); Human performance; Natural scenes; Rapid categorization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 1342306788     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2003.11.014     Document Type: Article

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