Feature specificity in attentional capture by size and color

Journal of Vision

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Harris, Anthony M ^a   Remington, Roger W ^a   Becker, Stefanie I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attentional capture; Feature attention; Featurespecific; Relational; Spatial cueing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL CAPTURE; COLOR VISION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEATURE ATTENTION; FEATURE-SPECIFIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RELATIONAL; SPATIAL CUEING;

ATTENTIONAL CAPTURE; FEATURE ATTENTION; FEATURE-SPECIFIC; RELATIONAL; SPATIAL CUEING;

ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878364967     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/13.3.12     Document Type: Article

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