Salience-Based Selection: Attentional Capture by Distractors Less Salient Than the Target

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Zehetleitner, Michael ^a   Koch, Anja Isabel ^a   Goschy, Harriet ^a   Müller, Hermann Joseph ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EYE TRACKING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESPONSE TIME; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84873868332     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052595     Document Type: Article

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