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Fisk, Arthur D.; Schneider, Walter – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 1983
Three experiments examined whether the phenomena of visual search for single characters (Sternberg, 1966) generalizes to word and word-category search when target and distractor sets had varied and consistent mappings across trials. Previous results were replicated. Four principles of search are discussed within a theory of automatic/control…
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