Top-down control settings and the attentional blink: Evidence for nonspatial contingent capture

Visual Cognition

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 616-642

  Folk, Charles L ^a   Leber, Andrew B ^b   Egeth, Howard E ^b  

^a VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISPERSION; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; EYE FIXATION; EYELID REFLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LETTER; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 46949110321     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280601134018     Document Type: Article

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