Repetition of distractor sets improves visual search performance in hemispatial neglect

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1161-1169

  Saevarsson, Styrmir ^a,b   Jóelsdóttir, Sigrúnsif ^c   Hjaltason, Haukur ^c,d   Kristjánsson, Árni ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^d LANDSPITALI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Iceland)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Context priming; Grouping; Neglect; Priming; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; FEMALE; HEMISPATIAL NEGLECT; HUMAN; MALE; NEGLECT; PERCEPTION; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; REPEAT PROCEDURE; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL SEARCH;

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 39149140106     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.10.020     Document Type: Article

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