Expectancies modulate attentional capture by salient color singletons

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1315-1326

  Geyer, Thomas ^a   Müller, Hermann J ^a,b   Krummenacher, Joseph ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Attentional capture; Cross trial priming; Oculomotor capture; Singleton distractor interference; Top down modulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VOLITION;

EID: 43049090064     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.02.006     Document Type: Article

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