Searching for something familiar or novel: Top-down attentional selection of specific items or object categories

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 719-729

  Wu, Rachel ^a,c   Scerif, Gaia ^b   Aslin, Richard N ^a   Smith, Tim J ^c   Nako, Rebecca ^c   Eimer, Martin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY ANALYSIS; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84875552277     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00352     Document Type: Article

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