Novelty and saliency in attentional capture by unannounced motion singletons

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 290-299

  Becker, Stefanie I ^a   Horstmann, Gernot ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Expectancy; Motion; Saliency; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; VISION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79952623087     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2010.12.002     Document Type: Article

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