Detecting and remembering pictures with and without visual noise

Journal of Vision

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Meng, Ming ^a,b   Potter, Mary C ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amodal completion; Occlusion; Recognition memory; RSVP; Scene perception; Target detection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COLOR VISION; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION;

ARTIFACTS; COLOR PERCEPTION; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 47749109475     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/8.9.7     Document Type: Article

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