Additivity of abrupt onset effects supports nonspatial distraction, not the capture of spatial attention

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 308-313

  Folk, Charles L ^a   Remington, Roger W ^b   Wu, Shu Chieh ^c  

^a VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; REACTION TIME;

ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME;

EID: 64749099746     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.71.2.308     Document Type: Article

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