Distractor interference in focused attention tasks is not mediated by attention capture

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1685-1695

  Gronau, Nurit ^a   Cohen, Asher ^b   Ben Shakhar, Gershon ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Attention capture; Attention gradient; Focused attention

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 70449591669     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210902811223     Document Type: Article

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