Salience from the decision perspective: You know where it is before you know it is there

Journal of Vision

Volumn 10, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 1-16

  Zehetleitner, Michael ^a   Müller, Hermann J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision chains; Detection; Localization; Salience

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DECISION MAKING; DECISION TREE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; DECISION MAKING; DECISION TREES; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LIGHTING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79251560939     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/10.14.1     Document Type: Article

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