Extending the simultaneous-sequential paradigm to measure perceptual capacity for features and words

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 813-833

  Scharff, Alec ^a   Palmer, John ^a   Moore, Cathleen M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacity limitations; Divided attention; Reading; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; LEARNING; MENTAL FUNCTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; READING; RECEPTIVE FIELD; REFERENCE VALUE;

ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MENTAL PROCESSES; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; READING; REFERENCE VALUES; SERIAL LEARNING; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 79958715185     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021440     Document Type: Article

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