Better to Take One Long or Two Quick Looks? Independent Processing of Evidence From Discrete Visual Presentations

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1337-1352

  Schwarz, Wolf ^a   Kühn, Simone ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

amnesic search; change blindness; signal detection theory; single versus multiple looks; time course of visual information processing

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 57749206499     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0011060     Document Type: Article

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