Searching for Life Motion Signals: Visual Search Asymmetry in Local but not Global Biological-motion Processing

Psychological Science

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1083-1089

  Wang, Li ^a,b   Zhang, Kan ^a   He, Sheng ^c   Jiang, Yi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

attention; biological motion; global; local; visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION; MOTION PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78049400423     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797610376072     Document Type: Article

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