Object co-occurrence serves as a contextual cue to guide and facilitate visual search in a natural viewing environment

Journal of Vision

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1-16

  Mack, Stephen C ^a   Eckstein, Miguel P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Search; Space and scene perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054702926     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/11.9.9     Document Type: Article

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