Capacity limits during perceptual encoding

Journal of Vision

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1-12

  West, Greg L ^a   Pun, Carson ^a   Pratt, Jay ^a   Ferber, Susanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Low vision; Search; Visual recognition

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RECEPTIVE FIELD; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955493669     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/10.2.14     Document Type: Article

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