The relative contribution of scene context and target features to visual search in scenes

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1283-1297

  Castelhano, Monica S ^a   Heaven, Chelsea ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; LEARNING; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SEMANTICS;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SACCADES; SEMANTICS;

EID: 77957683637     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.72.5.1283     Document Type: Article

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