The impact of colour, spatial resolution, and presentation speed on category naming

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 89-97

  Laws, Keith R ^a   Hunter, Maria Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agnosia; Category specificity; Lexicon; Object recognition; Picture naming; Semantics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLURRED VISION; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IDENTITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ADULT; AGNOSIA; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOMETRICS; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33749664735     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2006.03.002     Document Type: Article

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