Active suppression of distractors that match the contents of visual working memory

Visual Cognition

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 956-972

  Sawaki, Risa ^a   Luck, Steven J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attend to me signal; Attentional suppression; Event related potential; Pd; Visual working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SENSORY STIMULATION; VISION; VISUAL MEMORY; WAVEFORM; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 80052173954     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2011.603709     Document Type: Article

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