Redundancy gains in pop-out visual search are determined by top-down task set: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence

Journal of Vision

Volumn 11, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 1-10

  Grubert, Anna ^a,b   Krummenacher, Joseph ^b   Eimer, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Attention; Erps; N2pc; Top down control; Visual salience; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855445525     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/11.14.10     Document Type: Article

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