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Searching through the hierarchy: How level of target categorization affects visual search

Justin T. Maxfield Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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Gregory J. Zelinsky Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA; Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USACorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 1153-1163 | Received 05 Aug 2012, Accepted 14 Sep 2012, Published online: 02 Nov 2012

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