Diagnostic colours contribute to the early stages of scene categorization: Behavioural and neurophysiological evidence

Visual Cognition

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 878-892

  Goffaux, Valérie ^a   Jacques, Corentin ^a   Mourax, André ^a   Oliva, Aude ^b   Schyns, Philippe G ^c   Rossion, Bruno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; COLOR VISION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 24644495111     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280444000562     Document Type: Article

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