Incidental learning speeds visual search by lowering response thresholds, not by improving efficiency: Evidence from eye movements

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 90-112

  Hout, Michael C ^a   Goldinger, Stephen D ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Learning; Visual search; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; LEARNING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; LEARNING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84855664532     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023894     Document Type: Article

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