Spatial selection and target identification are separable processes in visual search

Journal of Vision

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1-12

  Ghorashi, Shahab ^a   Enns, James T ^b   Klein, Raymond M ^c   Di Lollo, Vincent ^d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; Attentional blink; Identification; Spatial selection; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SYSTEMS THEORY;

ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; CUES; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SYSTEMS THEORY;

EID: 77954678513     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/10.3.7     Document Type: Article

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