Recognising the forest, but not the trees: An effect of colour on scene perception and recognition

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 741-752

  Nijboer, Tanja C W ^a   Kanai, Ryota ^b   de Haan, Edward H F ^a   van der Smagt, Maarten J ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Change detection; Colour; Colour diagnosticity; Details; Gist; Memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETAIL BASED PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; GIST BASED PERCEPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; RECOGNITION; SENSORY MEMORY; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ADULT; COGNITION; COLOR PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TREES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 47149118186     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2007.07.008     Document Type: Article

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