Involuntary attention with uncertainty: Peripheral cues improve perception of masked letters, but may impair perception of low-contrast letters

Journal of Vision

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1-13

  Kerzel, Dirk ^a   Gauch, Angélique ^a   Buetti, Simona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Attention; Involuntary attention; Knowledge of results; Location uncertainty; Perceptual performance; Peripheral cues

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; COGNITION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CUES; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VOLITION;

EID: 78449252259     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/10.12.12     Document Type: Article

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