Meaning in visual search. Potter, M. C. Science, 187(4180):965-6, 1975.
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Viewers briefly glimpsed pictures presented in a sequence at rates up to eight per second. They recognized a target picture as accurately and almost as rapidly when they knew only its meaning given by a name (for example, a boat) as when they had seen the picture itself in advance.
@Article{Potter1975,
  author   = {Mary C. Potter},
  journal  = {Science},
  title    = {Meaning in visual search.},
  year     = {1975},
  number   = {4180},
  pages    = {965-6},
  volume   = {187},
  abstract = {Viewers briefly glimpsed pictures presented in a sequence at rates
	up to eight per second. They recognized a target picture as accurately
	and almost as rapidly when they knew only its meaning given by a
	name (for example, a boat) as when they had seen the picture itself
	in advance.},
  keywords = {Adult, Form Perception, Humans, Memory, Pattern Recognition, Reaction Time, Visual, 1145183},
}

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