Termination of a visual search with large display size effects

Spatial Vision

Volumn 17, Issue 4-5, 2004, Pages 327-352

  Cousineau, Denis ^a   Shiffrin, Richard M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributions; Termination rule; Visual search

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); SCANNING;

DISTRIBUTIONS; RESPONSE SELECTION; TERMINATION RULE; VISUAL SEARCH;

VISION;

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; VISUAL FIELD;

ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 6444228028     PISSN: 01691015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1568568041920104     Document Type: Article

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