A glimpse is not a glimpse: Differential processing of flashed scene previews leads to differential target search benefits

Visual Cognition

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 171-200

  Võ, Melissa L H ^a,b   Schneider, Werner X ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Eye movement control; Individual differences; Processing efficiency; Scene perception; Theory of Visual Attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

EID: 77449103705     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280802547901     Document Type: Article

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