A new object captures attention-but only when you know it's new

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 699-711

  Chua, Fook K ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ATTENTION; AWARENESS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SIZE PERCEPTION;

EID: 67650143266     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.71.4.699     Document Type: Article

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