Irrelevant singletons in visual search do not capture attention but can produce nonspatial filtering costs

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 645-660

  Wykowska, Agnieszka ^a   Schubö, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 78650364803     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21390     Document Type: Article

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