Attentional capture by masked colour singletons

Vision Research

Volumn 50, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 2015-2027

  Ansorge, Ulrich ^a,b,c   Horstmann, Gernot ^d   Worschech, Franziska ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Masking; Top down contingent capture.; Vision

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AWARENESS; COLOR VISION TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VALIDITY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 77955843432     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2010.07.015     Document Type: Article

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