A new look at novelty effects: Guiding search away from old distractors

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 554-564

  Yang, Hyejin ^a   Chen, Xin ^a   Zelinsky, Gregory J ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; LEARNING; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 65549150493     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.71.3.554     Document Type: Article

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