Top-down contingent feature-specific orienting with and without awareness of the visual input

Advances in Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 108-119

  Ansorge, Ulrich ^a,b   Horstmann, Gernot ^c   Scharlau, Ingrid ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

Author keywords

attention; masking; top down contingent capture; vision

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855955542     PISSN: 18951171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10053-008-0087-z     Document Type: Article

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