Perceptual basis of redundancy gains in visual pop-out search

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 137-150

  Töllner, Thomas ^a   Zehetleitner, Michael ^a   Krummenacher, Joseph ^b   Müller, Hermann J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS; STIMULUS; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649476693     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2010.21422     Document Type: Article

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