More Than Just Finding Color: Strategy in Global Visual Search Is Shaped by Learned Target Probabilities

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 688-699

  Williams, Carrick C ^a   Pollatsek, Alexander ^b   Cave, Kyle R ^b   Stroud, Michael J ^b  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

eye movements; target color ratio; visual search

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; LEARNING; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBABILITY LEARNING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 67549135619     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013900     Document Type: Article

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