Does focused endogenous attention prevent attentional capture in pop-out visual search?

Psychophysiology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 703-717

  Seiss, Ellen ^a   Kiss, Monika ^b   Eimer, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Electrophysiology; Event related brain potentials; Non spatial attention; Spatial attention; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; COLOR; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 66949175526     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2009.00827.x     Document Type: Article

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