Conceptual penetration of visual processing

Psychological Science

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 682-691

  Lupyan, Gary ^a,b   Thompson Schill, Sharon L ^a,b   Swingley, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Center for Cognitive Neuroscience   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Knowledge based vision; Modularity of vision; Perceptual learning; Top down effects; Visual processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONFLICT; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; STIMULUS GENERALIZATION;

ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION, STIMULUS; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SIZE PERCEPTION;

EID: 77953764466     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797610366099     Document Type: Article

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