Not all features are created equal: Processing asymmetries between location and object features

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1481-1491

  Chen, Zhe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Feature based attention; Location based attention; Processing asymmetry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; DISTRACTIBILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349092427     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.03.008     Document Type: Article

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