Processing of natural images is feedforward: A simple behavioral test

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 594-606

  Schmidt, Thomas ^a   Schmidt, Filipp ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REVERSAL LEARNING; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SIZE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65549112606     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.71.3.594     Document Type: Article

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