Does training under consistent mapping conditions lead to automatic attention attraction to targets in search tasks?

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 70, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1401-1415

  Lefebvre, Christine ^a   Cousineau, Denis ^a   Larochelle, Serge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUTOMATISM; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; REACTION TIME; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AUTOMATISM; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 58149384491     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PP.70.8.1401     Document Type: Article

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