Voluntary and involuntary attention have different consequences: The effect of perceptual difficulty

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 352-369

  Prinzmetal, William ^a   Zvinyatskovskiy, Aleksey ^a   Gutierrez, Paula ^a   Dilem, Leo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Endogenous; Exogenous; Feature integration; Spatial attention

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 63849093560     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210801954892     Document Type: Article

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