Irrelevant objects of expertise compete with faces during visual search

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 309-317

  McGugin, Rankin W ^a   McKeeff, Thomas J ^b   Tong, Frank ^a   Gauthier, Isabel ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Expertise; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION;

ATTENTION; AWARENESS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951954204     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-010-0006-5     Document Type: Article

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