Demands on attention and the role of response priming in visual discrimination of feature conjunctions

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 836-852

  Fournier, Lisa R ^a   Herbert, Rhonda J ^a   Farris, Carrie ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SET (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 4744341246     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.30.5.836     Document Type: Article

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