Attention Is Spontaneously Biased Toward Regularities

Psychological Science

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 667-677

  Zhao, Jiaying ^a   Al Aidroos, Naseem ^b   Turk Browne, Nicholas B ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

attentional capture; cognitive control; feature based attention; spatial attention; statistical learning; visual search

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877314929     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797612460407     Document Type: Article

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