Involuntary transfer of a top-down attentional set into the focus of attention: Evidence from a contingent attentional capture paradigm

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1495-1509

  Moore, Katherine Sledge ^a   Weissman, Daniel H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957660315     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.72.6.1495     Document Type: Article

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