Organizational and spatial dynamics of attentional focusing in hierarchically structured objects

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 758-780

  Yeari, Menahem ^a   Goldsmith, Morris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Focusing; Global local; Hierarchical organization; Object based vs. space based; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 79958699588     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0020746     Document Type: Article

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