Seeing trees OR seeing forests in simultanagnosia: Attentional capture can be local or global

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 871-875

  Dalrymple, Kirsten A ^a   Kingstone, Alan ^a   Barton, Jason J S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; Global capture; Hierarchical stimuli; Local capture; Simultanagnosia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PATHOLOGY; PERCEPTION; RECOGNITION; RESPONSE TIME; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SIMULTANAGNOSIA; STIMULUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ADULT; AGNOSIA; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FACE; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; READING; REFERENCE VALUES; SIZE PERCEPTION; TREES;

EID: 33845644697     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.07.013     Document Type: Article

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