Characteristic sounds make you look at target objects more quickly

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1736-1741

  Iordanescu, Lucica ^a   Grabowecky, Marcia ^a   Franconeri, Steven ^a   Theeuwes, Jan ^b   Suzuki, Satoru ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; HEARING; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT;

ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; SACCADES;

EID: 77958469841     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.72.7.1736     Document Type: Article

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