Searching for camouflaged targets: Effects of target-background similarity on visual search

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 2217-2235

  Neider, Mark B ^a   Zelinsky, Gregory J ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex backgrounds; Eye movements; Guided search; Object based attention; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EYE MOVEMENTS; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 33645031937     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.01.006     Document Type: Article

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