It’s Alive!: Animate Motion Captures Visual Attention

Psychological Science

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1724-1730

  Pratt, Jay ^a   Radulescu, Petre V ^a   Guo, Ruo mu ^b   Abrams, Richard A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

animacy; attention; attentional capture; motion

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; REACTION TIME;

ACCELERATION; ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953294395     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797610387440     Document Type: Article

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