Visual search asymmetry with uncertain targets

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1274-1287

  Saiki, Jun ^a,b,c   Koike, Takahiko ^a   Takahashi, Kohske ^a   Inoue, Tomoko ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c Graduate School of Informatics   (Japan)

Author keywords

Feature selection; Saliency map; Search asymmetry; Singleton search

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; THEORETICAL MODEL; VISION;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 32644481388     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.31.6.1274     Document Type: Article

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