Attention capacity and task difficulty in visual search

Cognition

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Huang, Liqiang ^a   Pashler, Harold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention capacity; Task difficulty; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

EID: 13844266745     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2004.06.006     Document Type: Article

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