Top-down control of attention: It's gradual, practice-dependent, and hierarchically organized

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 941-957

  Zehetleitner, Michael ^a   Goschy, Harriet ^a   Müller, Hermann J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attentional capture; Dimension weighting; Distractor shielding; Search modes; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84873738230     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0027629     Document Type: Article

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