White bear everywhere: Exploring the boundaries of the attentional white bear phenomenon

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 661-673

  Lahav, Aya ^a   Makovski, Tal ^b   Tsal, Yehoshua ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attentional white bear effect; Distractor inhibition; Distractor processing; Flanker task; Selective attention; Temporal order judgment; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME; SERIAL LEARNING; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84858771247     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-012-0275-2     Document Type: Article

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