Can intertrial priming account for the similarity effect in visual search?

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 1738-1756

  Becker, Stefanie I ^a   Ansorge, Ulrich ^b,c,d   Horstmann, Gernot ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Disengagement; Distractor; Similarity; Singleton; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCULOMOTOR SYSTEM; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349216594     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.04.001     Document Type: Article

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