Rapid scene perception with tragic consequences: observers miss perceiving vulnerable road users, especially in crowded traffic scenes

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1252-1262

  Sanocki, Thomas ^a   Islam, Mohammed ^a   Doyon, Jonathan K ^a   Lee, Chanyoung ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b University of South Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Object recognition; Scene perception; Traffic crashes

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; CROWDING (AREA); FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; RECOGNITION; TIME; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VISION;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ATTENTION; CROWDING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84939970283     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-015-0850-4     Document Type: Article

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