The impact of item clustering on visual search: It all depends on the nature of the visual search

Journal of Vision

Volumn 10, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 1-9

  Xu, Yaoda ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Perceptual organization; Search; Visual cognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME;

ATTENTION; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79251552826     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/10.14.1     Document Type: Article

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