Rewarding context accelerates implicit guidance in visual search

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 287-298

  Tseng, Yuan Chi ^a,b,c   Lleras, Alejandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b SMITH KETTLEWELL EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Contextual cuing; Guidance; Implicit learning; Rewards; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; REACTION TIME; REWARD; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CUES; DATA DISPLAY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; PROBABILITY; REACTION TIME; REWARD; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876923814     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-012-0400-2     Document Type: Article

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