Processing the presence, placement, and properties of a distractor in spatial language tasks

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 240-255

  Carlson, Laura A ^a   Hill, Patrick L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISTRACTIBILITY; DISTRACTOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT DIMENSION; OBJECT LOCATION; OBJECT MANIPULATION; OBJECT RELATION; REFERENCE MEMORY; REFERENCE OBJECT; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL DISPLAY UNIT; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; READING; SEMANTICS;

ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; READING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 44649121106     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.36.2.240     Document Type: Article

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