Top-down search for color prevents voluntary directing of attention to informative singleton cues

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 153-162

  Worschech, Franziska ^a,b   Ansorge, Ulrich ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Attention; Color; Contingent capture; Cueing; Singleton capture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84862845686     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000138     Document Type: Article

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