Visual search by action category

Journal of Vision

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1-14

  van Boxtel, Jeroen J A ^a   Lu, Hongjing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Action perception; Activities; Attention; Biological motion; Motion capture; Point light animations; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054122629     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/11.7.1     Document Type: Article

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