How Attentional Systems Process Conflicting Cues. The Superiority of Social Over Symbolic Orienting Revisited

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1738-1754

  Nummenmaa, Lauri ^a   Hietanen, Jari K ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

attention; cueing; gaze; orienting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CONFLICT; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 73649111366     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016472     Document Type: Article

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