Should I Stay or Should I Go? Attentional Disengagement From Visually Unique and Unexpected Items at Fixation

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 808-815

  Brockmole, James R ^a   Boot, Walter R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

attention; attention capture; eye movements; fixation duration; novelty

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME;

ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SET (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 67549130308     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013707     Document Type: Article

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