A Clash of Bottom-Up and Top-Down Processes in Visual Search: The Reversed Letter Effect Revisited

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Zhaoping, Li ^a   Frith, Uta ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Familiarity; Object recognition; Saliency; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; REACTION TIME; RECEPTIVE FIELD; REFERENCE VALUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79961140106     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023099     Document Type: Article

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