Biological motion cues trigger reflexive attentional orienting

Cognition

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 348-354

  Shi, Jinfu ^a   Weng, Xuchu ^a   He, Sheng ^b   Jiang, Yi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Biological motion; Reflexive orienting; Walking direction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; INFORMATION; MALE; MOTION; ORIENTING REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL SYSTEM; WALKING;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WALKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78049404610     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.09.001     Document Type: Article

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