Positional priming of pop-out: A relational-encoding account

Journal of Vision

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1-17

  Geyer, Thomas ^a   Zehetleitner, Michael ^a   Müller, Hermann J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Priming of pop out; Set size effects; Visual search; Visual short term memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

COLOR PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEURAL INHIBITION; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955504384     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/10.2.3     Document Type: Article

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