A feature-weighting account of priming in conjunction search

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 258-272

  Becker, Stefanie I ^a   Horstmann, Gernot ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT;

ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 64749091314     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.71.2.258     Document Type: Article

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