The components of visual attention and the ubiquitous Simon effect

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 225-234

  Klein, Raymond M ^a   Ivanoff, Jason ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alerting; Attention; Executive control; Inhibition of return (IOR); Simon effect

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); ORIENTATION; REACTION TIME; VISION;

ATTENTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); ORIENTATION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79952725243     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2010.08.003     Document Type: Article

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