Expectation both helps and hinders object perception

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 589-597

  Puri, Amrita M ^a   Wojciulik, Ewa ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Face; Facilitation; Interference; Scene

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPECTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PERCEPTION; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACE; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 38749119767     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.11.017     Document Type: Article

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