Visual prior entry for foreground figures

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 654-659

  Lester, Benjamin D ^a   Hecht, Lauren N ^a   Vecera, Shaun P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; RECEPTIVE FIELD;

ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 74849124153     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PBR.16.4.654     Document Type: Article

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