The Role of Perceptual Load in Object Recognition

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1346-1358

  Lavie, Nilli ^a   Lin, Zhicheng ^b   Zokaei, Nahid ^c   Thoma, Volker ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

attention; distraction; object recognition; perceptual load; visual perception

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REACTION TIME; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RECOGNITION; REFERENCE VALUE; VISION; WORKLOAD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REFERENCE VALUES; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WORKLOAD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350514287     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016454     Document Type: Article

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