Does conspicuity enhance distraction? Saliency and eye landing position when searching for objects

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1088-1098

  Foulsham, Tom ^a,b   Underwood, Geoffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; Eye movements; Saliency; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REACTION TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROBABILITY; REACTION TIME;

EID: 67651248044     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210802602433     Document Type: Article

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