The costs of switching attentional sets

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2481-2488

  Dombrowe, Isabel ^a   Donk, Mieke ^a   Olivers, Christian N L ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attention; Eye movements: cognitive

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; HUMAN; LEARNING; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT;

ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; SET (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 81755188412     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-011-0198-3     Document Type: Article

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