Attentional capture by entirely irrelevant distractors

Visual Cognition

Volumn 16, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 200-214

  Forster, Sophie ^a   Lavie, Nilli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ART; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 40349108855     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280701465049     Document Type: Article

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