The importance of being expert: Top-down attentional control in visual search with photographs

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 71, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1478-1486

  Hershler, Orit ^a   Hochstein, Shaul ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; RECALL; VISUAL FIELD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 73449132617     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.71.7.1478     Document Type: Article

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