Fundamental differences in visual search with verbal and pictorial cues

Vision Research

Volumn 71, Issue , 2012, Pages 28-36

  Knapp, William H ^a   Abrams, Richard A ^b  

^a ISTANBUL SEHIR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Cues; Visual attention; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COLOR VISION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VOLUNTEER;

ATTENTION; CUES; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84867347200     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2012.08.015     Document Type: Article

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