Visual search for featural singletons: No top-down modulation, only bottom-up priming

Visual Cognition

Volumn 14, Issue 4-8, 2006, Pages 466-489

  Theeuwes, Jan ^a   Reimann, Brit ^b   Mortier, Karen ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL INFORMATION;

EID: 33745856295     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280500195110     Document Type: Article

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