Automatic priming of attentional control by relevant colors

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 83-104

  Ansorge, Ulrich ^a,b,c   Becker, Stefanie I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attentional capture; Spatial attention; Top down control; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856274826     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-011-0231-6     Document Type: Article

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