Attentional capture during visual search is attenuated by target predictability: Evidence from the N2pc, Pd, and topographic segmentation

Psychophysiology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 422-430

  Burra, Nicolas ^a   Kerzel, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bottom up; EEG; N2pc; Predictability; Saliency; Top down; Visual search

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875641222     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12019     Document Type: Article

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