What Top-Down Task Sets Do For Us: An ERP Study on The Benefits of Advance Preparation in Visual Search

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1758-1766

  Eimer, Martin ^a   Kiss, Monika ^a   Nicholas, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Event related brain potentials; Selective attention; Task set; Top down control; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 83055188685     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0024326     Document Type: Article

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