Top-down effects of semantic knowledge in visual search are modulated by cognitive but not perceptual load

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 70, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1444-1458

  Belke, Eva ^a   Humphreys, Glyn W ^b   Watson, Derrick G ^c   Meyer, Antje S ^b   Telling, Anna L ^b  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMAN; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISION;

COGNITION; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; SEMANTICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 58149382628     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PP.70.8.1444     Document Type: Article

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