Kanizsa-type subjective contours do not guide attentional deployment in visual search but line termination contours do

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 477-488

  Li, Xingshan ^a   Cave, Kyle R ^a   Wolfe, Jeremy M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 45549107124     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PP.70.3.477     Document Type: Article

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