Attentional Capture of Objects Referred to by Spoken Language

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1122-1133

  Salverda, Anne Pier ^a   Altmann, Gerry T M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attentional capture; Eye movements; Lexical processing; Visual attention; Visual world paradigm

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; REACTION TIME; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RECOGNITION; REFERENCE VALUE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EYE MOVEMENTS; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REFERENCE VALUES; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 79961158256     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023101     Document Type: Article

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