Thinking About the Weather: How Display Salience and Knowledge Affect Performance in a Graphic Inference Task

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 37-53

  Hegarty, Mary ^a   Canham, Matt S ^a   Fabrikant, Sara I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

attention; display design; eye fixations; graphics comprehension; inference

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; EYE FIXATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REACTION TIME; STUDENT; THINKING; TIME; VISION; WEATHER;

ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; FIXATION, OCULAR; GENETIC TESTING; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REACTION TIME; STUDENTS; THINKING; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WEATHER;

EID: 74049132319     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017683     Document Type: Article

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