Where Similarity Beats Redundancy: The Importance of Context, Higher Order Similarity, and Response Assignment

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1441-1463

  Eidels, Ami ^a   Townsend, James T ^a   Pomerantz, James R ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

configural; redundant target effect; similarity; systems factorial technology; topology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; RECEPTIVE FIELD;

ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SIZE PERCEPTION;

EID: 57749209940     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0012320     Document Type: Article

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