Inter-trial and redundant-signals effects in visual search and discrimination tasks: Separable pre-attentive and post-selective effects

Vision Research

Volumn 50, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 1382-1395

  Krummenacher, Joseph ^a   Grubert, Anna ^a   Müller, Hermann J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Grice inequality; Inter trial effects; Post selective processing; Pre attentive processing; Race model inequality; Redundancy gain; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SENSORY GATING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955672842     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2010.04.006     Document Type: Article

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