Automatic selection of irrelevant object features through working memory evidence for top-down attentional capture

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 165-172

  Soto, David ^a,b   Humphreys, Glyn W ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attentional capture; Top down processing; Visual attention; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; REACTION TIME; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 64249162848     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169.56.3.165     Document Type: Article

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