Using feature preview to investigate the roles of top-down and bottom-up processing in conjunction search

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 22-30

  Sobel, Kenith V ^a   Pickard, Matthew D ^a   Acklin, William T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottom up; Conjunction search; Top down

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 68349158931     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2009.06.003     Document Type: Article

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