Reward has a residual impact on target selection in visual search, but not on the suppression of distractors

Visual Cognition

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 117-128

  Hickey, Clayton ^a   Chelazzi, Leonardo ^b   Theeuwes, Jan ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attention; Distractor suppression; Priming; Reward

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; COLOR; DISTRACTIBILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; VISION;

EID: 78649529162     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2010.503946     Document Type: Article

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