Visual search near threshold: Some features are more equal than others

Journal of Vision

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 523-540

  Hannus, Aave ^a,b,c   van den Berg, Ronald ^d   Bekkering, Harold ^b   Roerdink, Jos B T M ^d   Cornelissen, Frans W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Color discrimination; Conjunction search; Crowding; Feature search; Orientation discrimination; Size discrimination

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ADULT; COLOR; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SACCADES; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 33746839654     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/6.4.15     Document Type: Article

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