Evidence of fixed capacity in visual object categorization

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 713-721

  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; Object recognition; Simultaneous sequential paradigm; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEMORY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; VISION;

ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CUES; HUMANS; LEARNING; MEMORY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79959953470     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-011-0101-1     Document Type: Article

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