Hiding and finding: The relationship between visual concealment and visual search

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 71, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1793-1806

  Smilek, Daniel ^a   Weinheimer, Laura ^a   Kwan, Donna ^a   Reynolds, Mike ^b   Kingstone, Alan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS;

ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS;

EID: 75549091615     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.71.8.1793     Document Type: Article

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