Parallel distractor rejection as a binding mechanism in search

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue AUG, 2012, Pages

  Dent, Kevin ^a   Allen, Harriet A ^b   Braithwaite, Jason J ^c   Humphreys, Glyn W ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Conjunction search; Feature binding; Inhibition; Visual search

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867135097     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00278     Document Type: Article

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