On the role of attention in generating explicit awareness of contingent relations: Evidence from spatial priming

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1433-1451

  Fiacconi, Chris M ^a   Milliken, Bruce ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; Binding; Explicit awareness; Feature integration; Inattentional blindness; Priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; COLOR VISION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTINGENCY AWARENESS; HUMAN; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; AWARENESS; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REPETITION PRIMING; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 80054855323     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2011.06.002     Document Type: Article

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