Determining subprocesses of visual feature search with reaction time models

Psychological Research

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 80-105

  Müller Plath, Gisela ^a,b   Pollmann, Stefan ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Feature search; Mathematical model; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RANDOMIZATION; REACTION TIME; VISION;

ADULT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 18544406750     PISSN: 03400727     EISSN: 14302772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00426-002-0109-2     Document Type: Article

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