Adaptation improves performance on a visual search task

Journal of Vision

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Wissig, Stephanie C ^a   Patterson, Carlyn A ^a   Kohn, Adam ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Orientation discrimination; Salience; Spatial context; Temporal context; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ATTENTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; SPACE PERCEPTION;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84878368288     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/13.2.6     Document Type: Article

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