Personally-significant information affects performance only within the focus of attention: A direct manipulation of attention

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1754-1767

  Breska, Assaf ^a   Israel, Moran ^a   Maoz, Keren ^a   Cohen, Asher ^a   Ben Shakhar, Gershon ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Attention; Luminance; Orienting response; Personally significant stimuli; Skin conductance response; Task interference; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUMINESCENCE; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS;

AROUSAL; ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CUES; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; LUMINESCENCE; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79961187148     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-011-0134-6     Document Type: Article

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