Face identification in the near-absence of focal attention

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 2336-2343

  Reddy, Leila ^a   Reddy, Lavanya ^a   Koch, Christof ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Dual task paradigm; Face identification; Famous faces

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FACE; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC FIGURE; RECOGNITION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACE; FAMOUS PERSONS; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 33645963162     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.01.020     Document Type: Article

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