Association and dissociation between detection and discrimination of objects of expertise: Evidence from visual search

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 391-406

  Golan, Tal ^a   Bentin, Shlomo ^a   DeGutis, Joseph M ^b,f   Robertson, Lynn C ^c,d   Harel, Assaf ^e  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d VA NORTHERN CALIFORNIA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental prosopagnosia; Face perception; Perceptual categorization; Perceptual expertise; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CAR; CLINICAL TRIAL; FACE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSOPAGNOSIA; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AUTOMOBILES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROSOPAGNOSIA; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84891649462     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-013-0562-6     Document Type: Article

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