Reaction time distributions constrain models of visual search

Vision Research

Volumn 50, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 1304-1311

  Wolfe, Jeremy M ^a   Palmer, Evan M ^b   Horowitz, Todd S ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Guided Search; Reaction time; RT distributions; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954834589     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.11.002     Document Type: Article

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