Additional-singleton interference in efficient visual search: A common salience route for detection and compound tasks

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 71, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1760-1770

  Michael, Zehetleitner ^a   Proulx, Michael J ^b   Müller, Hermann J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75549089337     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.71.8.1760     Document Type: Article

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