Feature-based attentional set as a cause of traffic accidents

Visual Cognition

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 125-132

  Most, Steven B ^a   Astur, Robert S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOTORCYCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SIMULATION; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAFFIC SAFETY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 33847217266     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280600959316     Document Type: Article

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