Typicality aids search for an unspecified target, but only in identification and not in attentional guidance

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 795-801

  Castelhano, Monica S ^a   Pollatsek, Alexander ^b   Cave, Kyle R ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS;

ATTENTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS;

EID: 50949103543     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PBR.15.4.795     Document Type: Article

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