Perceptual load affects exogenous spatial orienting while working memory load does not

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 184, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 371-382

  Santangelo, Valerio ^a,b   Finoia, Paola ^a,b   Raffone, Antonino ^b   Olivetti Belardinelli, Marta ^b,c   Spence, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c ECONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attentional capture; Automaticity; Exogenous orienting; Load; Perceptual; Spatial attention; Visual; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EXOGENOUS VARIABLE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL PROCESSES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REFLEX; SPACE PERCEPTION; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 37249076542     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-007-1108-8     Document Type: Article

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