The detection of feature singletons defined in two dimensions is based on salience summation, rather than on serial exhaustive or interactive race architectures

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 71, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1739-1759

  Michael, Zehetleitner ^a   Krummenacher, Joseph ^b   Müller, Hermann J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

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

ADULT; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75549091662     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.71.8.1739     Document Type: Article

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