Task-based working memory guidance of visual attention

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1082-1095

  Chen, Zhe ^a   Tsou, Brian H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Distractor inhibition; Visual search; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STROOP TEST;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; STROOP TEST;

EID: 79955817877     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-010-0087-1     Document Type: Article

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