Priming in visual search: Separating the effects of target repetition, distractor repetition and role-reversal

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1217-1232

  Kristjánsson, Árni ^a,b   Driver, Jon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conjunction search; Priming; Repetition priming; Visual attention; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FACILITATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 42749095161     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.02.007     Document Type: Article

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