Active exploration improves perceptual sensitivity for virtual 3D objects in visual recognition tasks

Vision Research

Volumn 51, Issue 23-24, 2011, Pages 2431-2439

  Meijer, Frank ^a   Van der Lubbe, Rob H J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND MANAGEMENT   (Poland)

Author keywords

Active exploration; Attention; Masking; Object recognition; Passive exploration

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE EXPLORATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTUAL SENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL 3 DIMENSIONAL OBJECT; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82455208885     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2011.09.013     Document Type: Article

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