Top-down task sets for combined features: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence for two stages in attentional object selection

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 216-228

  Kiss, Monika ^a,b   Grubert, Anna ^a   Eimer, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Attention; Event related potentials; Spatial; Top down control; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84876915040     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-012-0391-z     Document Type: Article

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