Revisiting the category effect: The influence of meaning and search strategy on the efficiency of visual search

Brain Research

Volumn 1080, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 73-90

  Smilek, Daniel ^a   Dixon, Mike J ^a   Merikle, Philip M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; Category effect; Meaning; Search strategy; Visual attention; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION TEST; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CLASSIFICATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 33644947764     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2005.07.079     Document Type: Conference Paper

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