The attentional white bear phenomenon: The mandatory allocation of attention to expected distractor locations

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 351-363

  Tsal, Yehoshua ^a   Makovski, Tal ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Distractor interference; Early and late selection; Flanker task; Selective attention; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; LEARNING; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; RECEPTIVE FIELD; REFERENCE VALUE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 33747196341     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.32.2.351     Document Type: Article

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