Capture versus suppression of attention by salient singletons: Electrophysiological evidence for an automatic attend-to-me signal

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1455-1470

  Sawaki, Risa ^a   Luck, Steven J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; COLOR VISION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VISUAL FIELD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SIZE PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957686096     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.72.6.1455     Document Type: Article

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