Priming resolves perceptual ambiguity in visual search: Evidence from behaviour and electrophysiology

Vision Research

Volumn 50, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 1362-1371

  Olivers, Christian N L ^a   Hickey, Clayton ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Attention; EEG; Intertrial priming; N2pc; P1; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMBIGUITY; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SENSORY SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954759870     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.11.022     Document Type: Article

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