Spacing affects some but not all visual searches: Implications for theories of attention and crowding

Journal of Vision

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Reddy, Lavanya ^a   VanRullen, Rufin ^b  

^a California Institute of Technology HHMI   (United States)

^b Brain and Cognition Research Center in Toulouse   (France)

Author keywords

Attention; Biased competition; Crowding; Feature integration; Serial search; Spacing effects; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FACE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; VISION;

ATTENTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACE; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33846954449     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/7.2.3     Document Type: Article

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