Entirely irrelevant distractors can capture and captivate attention

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1064-1070

  Forster, Sophie ^a   Lavie, Nilli ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Attentional capture; Attentional settings; Irrelevant distractors

Indexed keywords

EID: 81355142092     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-011-0172-z     Document Type: Article

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