Task specificity and the influence of memory on visual search: Comment on Võ and Wolfe (2012)

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1596-1603

  Hollingworth, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Episodic memory; Eye movements; Scene perception; Visual memory; Visual search

Indexed keywords

DEPTH PERCEPTION; EPISODIC MEMORY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84874728605     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0030237     Document Type: Note

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