Color-selective attention need not be mediated by spatial attention

Journal of Vision

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Andersen, Sören K ^a   Müller, Matthias M ^a   Hillyard, Steven A ^b  

^a Institut fur Psychologie I   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Color; Feature selection; Steady state visual evoked potential; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67249109632     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/9.6.2     Document Type: Article

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