Attentional capture by singletons is contingent on top-down control settings: Evidence from electrophysiological measures

Visual Cognition

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 682-727

  Lien, Mei Ching ^a   Ruthruff, Eric ^b   Cornett, Logan ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention capture; N2pc effect; Spatial attention; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD; WAVEFORM;

EID: 77951934019     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280903000040     Document Type: Article

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