Dividing attention across feature dimensions in statistical processing of perceptual groups

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 946-954

  Emmanouil, Tatiana Aloi ^a   Treisman, Anne ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 50249115156     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PP.70.6.946     Document Type: Article

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