Attention has memory: Priming for the size of the attentional focus

Spatial Vision

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 147-159

  Fuggetta, Giorgio ^a   Lanfranchi, Silvia ^b   Campana, Gianluca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attentional focus; Priming; Repetition effect

Indexed keywords

ARRAY SIZES; CONTEXTUAL EFFECTS; DIFFERENT SIZES; MEMORY MECHANISM; REACTION TIME; REPETITION EFFECTS; SPATIAL POSITIONS; VISUAL SEARCH;

VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; RECALL; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67549093937     PISSN: 01691015     EISSN: 15685683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156856809787465618     Document Type: Article

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