Feature-based attentional modulation increases with stimulus separation in divided-attention tasks

Spatial Vision

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 529-553

  Sally, Sharon L ^a,c   Vidnyánsky, Zoltán ^b   Papathomas, Thomas V ^c  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Divided attention; Dual task; Eccentricity; Feature based attention; Human; Psychophysics

Indexed keywords

ATTENTIONAL MECHANISM; CENTRAL FIXATION; CONTROL EXPERIMENTS; DIVIDED ATTENTION; DUAL-TASKS; FEATURE DIMENSIONS; FEATURE-BASED; HORIZONTAL PLANES; HUMAN PSYCHOPHYSICS; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPATIAL PARAMETERS; SPATIAL SEPARATION; TARGET FEATURE; TARGET LOCATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELDS;

EXPERIMENTS; LOCATION; PHYSICS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPOT WELDING;

TARGETS;

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME;

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 77949319721     PISSN: 01691015     EISSN: 15685683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156856809789822970     Document Type: Article

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