Where have we gone wrong? Perceptual load does not affect selective attention

Vision Research

Volumn 50, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 1292-1298

  Benoni, Hanna ^a   Tsal, Yehoshua ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dilution; Perceptual load; Selective attention; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PERCEPTUAL LOAD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THEORY; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77953133582     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2010.04.018     Document Type: Article

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