To Be or Not To Be ... Included in an Event File: Integration and Retrieval of Distractors in Stimulus-Response Episodes Is Influenced by Perceptual Grouping

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1209-1227

  Frings, Christian ^a   Rothermund, Klaus ^b  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Distractor processing; Event files; Grouping; S R binding

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RECALL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960990446     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023915     Document Type: Article

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