On the limits of top-down control of visual selection

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2092-2103

  Theeuwes, Jan ^a   van der Burg, Erik ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attention; Attention: Selective; Attentional capture

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REACTION TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80155183217     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-011-0176-9     Document Type: Article

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