Attentional capture is contingent on the interaction between task demand and stimulus salience

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1015-1026

  Lu, Shena ^a,b   Han, Shihui ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONFLICT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTIVATION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; REACTION TIME;

ATTENTION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68949180058     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.71.5.1015     Document Type: Article

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