The effect of background color on asymmetries in color search

Journal of Vision

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 224-240

  Rosenholtz, Ruth ^a   Nagy, Allen L ^b   Bell, Nicole R ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Background color; Color vision; Context; Search asymmetries; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION; COLOR VISION TEST; COLORIMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; LUMINANCE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTION; RESPONSE TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION; THEORETICAL MODEL; VISUAL STIMULATION; ATTENTION; COLOR; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA CONE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COLOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONES (RETINA); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 2442441784     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/4.3.9     Document Type: Article

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