Distinguishing between parallel and serial accounts of multiple object tracking

Journal of Vision

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Howe, Piers D L ^a,b   Cohen, Michael A ^c   Pinto, Yair ^a,b   Horowitz, Todd S ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Computational modeling; Motion 2D

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL FIELD; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION PERCEPTION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955163496     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/10.8.11     Document Type: Article

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