Detecting changes in real-world objects: The relationship between visual long-term memory and change blindness

Communicative and Integrative Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-3

  Brady, Timothy F ^a   Konkle, Talia ^a   Oliva, Aude ^a   Alvarez, George A ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Change blindness; Change detection; Fidelity; Gist; Object recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 60949093525     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19420889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cib.2.1.7297     Document Type: Article

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