Going the distance: Extra-symbolic contributions to the symbolic control of spatial attention

Visual Cognition

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1237-1261

  Gibson, Bradley S ^a   Thompson, Alexis N ^a   Davis, Gregory J ^a   Biggs, Adam T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Attentional control; Spatial attention; Spatial cuing; Symbolic control

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; EXPECTANCY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; OBSERVER BIAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SYMBOLISM;

EID: 84855645311     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2011.628636     Document Type: Article

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