Implicit identification of irrelevant local objects interacts with global/local processing of hierarchical stimuli

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 321-336

  Poirel, N ^a   Pineau, A ^a   Mellet, E ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Automatic object identification; Hierarchically organized figures; Local global processing; Semantic processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUTOMATISM; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; RECEPTIVE FIELD;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AUTOMATISM; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SIZE PERCEPTION;

EID: 33646867716     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2005.12.010     Document Type: Article

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