Attentional Capture With Rapidly Changing Attentional Control Settings

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-16

  Lien, Mei Ching ^a   Ruthruff, Eric ^b   Johnston, James C ^c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

attentional capture; attentional control; spatial attention; task switching

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; REACTION TIME; VISION;

ATTENTION; CUES; HUMANS; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 76049122201     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015875     Document Type: Article

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