Set-size effects for identification versus localization depend on the visual search task

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 790-810

  Busey, Tom ^a   Palmer, John ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Binding; Signal detection theory; Spatial localization; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MEMORY; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FIXATION, OCULAR; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MEMORY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SIZE PERCEPTION; SPACE PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 58149141619     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.34.4.790     Document Type: Article

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