Context and competition in the capture of visual attention

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2053-2064

  Hickey, Clayton ^a   Theeuwes, Jan ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attention; Biased competition; Capture; Visual search

Indexed keywords

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

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80155183242     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-011-0168-9     Document Type: Article

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