The boundary conditions of priming of visual search: From passive viewing through task-relevant working memory load

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 514-521

  Kristjánsson, Árni ^a,b   Saevarsson, Styrmir ^c   Driver, Jon ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Chirurgische Klinik Munchen Bogenhausen   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Priming; Vision; Visual working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878488749     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-013-0375-6     Document Type: Article

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