Time course of visual object categorization: Fastest does not necessarily mean first

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 1961-1968

  Mack, Michael L ^a   Wong, Alan C N ^b   Gauthier, Isabel ^a   Tanaka, James W ^c   Palmeri, Thomas J ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Basic level; Object categorization; Object recognition; Temporal dynamics; Time course

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY;

DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 67649367535     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.05.005     Document Type: Article

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