A new form of human spatial attention: Automated symbolic orienting

Visual Cognition

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 244-264

  Ristic, Jelena ^a   Kingstone, Alan ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Behaviourally relevant cues; Human attention; Spatial orienting

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; AUTOMATION; BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ATTENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

EID: 84859593704     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2012.658101     Document Type: Article

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