Interrupted visual searches reveal volatile search memory

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1208-1220

  Shen, Y Jeremy ^a,b   Jiang, Yuhong V ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Change detection; Disruptions; Interrupted searches; Spatial memory; Spatial organization; Visual attention and memory; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; HUMAN; MEMORY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; REACTION TIME; VISION;

ATTENTION; HUMANS; MEMORY; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33749449753     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.32.5.1208     Document Type: Article

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