Is multiple object tracking carried out automatically by an early vision mechanism independent of higher-order cognition? An individual difference approach

Visual Cognition

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 631-671

  Oksama, Lauri ^a   Hyönä, Jukka ^b  

^a FINNISH DEFENCE FORCES   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DIRECTIONAL VISION; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL MEMORY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

EID: 4043062216     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280344000473     Document Type: Article

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