Attentional capture by size singletons is determined by top-down search goals

Psychophysiology

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 784-787

  Kiss, Monika ^a   Eimer, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Event related potentials (ERPs); N2pc; Top down control; Visual selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955492277     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2010.01145.x     Document Type: Article

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