Top-down search strategies determine attentional capture in visual search: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 951-962

  Eimer, Martin ^a   Kiss, Monika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77955290316     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.72.4.951     Document Type: Article

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