Attentional capture by abrupt onsets and feature singletons produces inhibitory surrounds

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1485-1493

  Mounts, Jeffrey R W ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0034298085     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03212148     Document Type: Article

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