Faces, flowers and football boots: Capacity limits in distractor processing

Cognition

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 718-728

  Brebner, Joanne L ^a   Macrae, C Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Distractor processing; Faces; Flankers; Selection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; FEMALE; FLOWER; FOOTBALL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; VERBALIZATION; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; READING; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 41349087944     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.08.002     Document Type: Article

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