Attention to Hierarchical Level Influences Attentional Selection of Spatial Scale

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 12-22

  Flevaris, Anastasia V ^a   Bentin, Shlomo ^b   Robertson, Lynn C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Hierarchical perception; Selective attention; Spatial frequency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; OCULOGRAPHY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 79951518977     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019251     Document Type: Article

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