Competition between color salience and perceptual load during visual selection can be biased by top-down set

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 53-64

  Biggs, Adam T ^a   Gibson, Bradley S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; REACTION TIME; VISION;

ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; HUMANS; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77949329571     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.72.1.53     Document Type: Article

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