The influence of color information on the recognition of color diagnostic and noncolor diagnostic objects

Journal of General Psychology

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 49-65

  Bramão, Ines ^a   Inacio, Filomena ^a   Faísca, Luís ^a   Reis, Alexandra ^a   Petersson, Karl Magnus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

color diagnosticity; color knowledge information; perceptual color information; visual object recognition; visual processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650879461     PISSN: 00221309     EISSN: 19400888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00221309.2010.533718     Document Type: Article

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