Irrelevant Singletons in Pop-Out Search: Attentional Capture or Filtering Costs?

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 764-787

  Becker, Stefanie I ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

attention; filtering; pop out; priming; visual search

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; REACTION TIME;

ATTENTION; HUMANS; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 34548862568     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.33.4.764     Document Type: Article

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