Top-Down Attentional Control for Distractor Locations: The Benefit of Precuing Distractor Locations on Target Localization and Discrimination

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 303-316

  Chao, Hsuan Fu ^a  

^a CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

active inhibition; attentional control; distractor precue benefit; location selection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISION;

ATTENTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77950590603     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015790     Document Type: Article

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