Task-irrelevant stimulus salience affects visual search

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1472-1480

  Lamy, Dominique ^a   Zoaris, Loren ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Attention; Attentional capture; Priming of popout; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL SEARCH; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349189493     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.03.007     Document Type: Article

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