Do multielement visual tracking and visual search draw continuously on the same visual attention resources?

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 643-667

  Alvarez, George A ^a,e   Arsenio, Helga C ^b   Horowitz, Todd S ^c,f   DiMase, Jennifer S ^d   Wolfe, Jeremy M ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Attention operating characteristic; Dual task; Search; Tracking

Indexed keywords

EID: 24944458827     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.31.4.643     Document Type: Article

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