Visuospatial attention is guided by both the symbolic value and the spatial proximity of selected arrows

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1321-1324

  Pratt, Jay ^a   Radulescu, Petre ^a   Guo, Ruo Mu ^a   Hommel, Bernhard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attention; Symbols; Top down control

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SYMBOLISM;

ANTICIPATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SYMBOLISM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957343737     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019996     Document Type: Article

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