Object detection and basic-level categorization: Sometimes you know it is there before you know what it is

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 28-35

  Mack, Michael L ^a   Gauthier, Isabel ^a   Sadr, Javid ^b   Palmeri, Thomas J ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; LEARNING; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; RECEPTIVE FIELD;

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SET (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 48349140577     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PBR.15.1.28     Document Type: Article

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