The prevalence effect is determined by past experience, not future prospects

Vision Research

Volumn 50, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 1469-1474

  Lau, Jonas Sin Heng ^a   Huang, Liqiang ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Prevalence effect; Top down control; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 77953960815     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2010.04.020     Document Type: Article

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