Pop-out without awareness: Unseen feature singletons capture attention only when top-down attention is available

Psychological Science

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1220-1226

  Hsieh, Po Jang ^a,b   Colas, Jaron T ^b   Kanwisher, Nancy ^b  

^a DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

attention; consciousness; visual attention

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052535788     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797611419302     Document Type: Article

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