Visual Marking: Prioritizing Selection for New Objects by Top-Down Attentional Inhibition of Old Objects

Psychological Review

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 90-122

  Watson, Derrick G ^a   Humphreys, Glyn W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECALL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 0030637133     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.104.1.90     Document Type: Article

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