New objects do not capture attention without a sensory transient

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1298-1310

  Hollingworth, Andrew ^a   Simons, Daniel J ^b   Franconeri, Steven L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

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

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957652875     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.72.5.1298     Document Type: Article

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