The effect of feature discriminability on the intertrial inhibition of focused attention

Visual Cognition

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 920-944

  Wan, Xiaoang ^a   Lleras, Alejandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Distractor previewing effect (DPE); Feature discriminability; Focused attention; Inhibition; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 77953533231     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280903507143     Document Type: Article

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