Salience and target selection in visual search

Visual Cognition

Volumn 14, Issue 4-8, 2006, Pages 514-542

  Nothdurft, Hans Christoph ^a,b  

^a Visual Perception Laboratory VPL   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GOOSEBERRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STRAWBERRY; TOMATO; TREE; VISION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 33745852831     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280500194162     Document Type: Article

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