Distractors less salient than targets capture attention rather than producing non-spatial filtering costs

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 61-72

  Koch, A Isabel ^a   Müller, Hermann J ^a,b   Zehetleitner, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attentional capture; Distance; Non spatial filtering; Parametrical salience manipulation; Selective attention; Visual search

Indexed keywords

2323; 2340; 2346; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL CAPTURE; DISTANCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NON-SPATIAL FILTERING; PARAMETRICAL SALIENCE MANIPULATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REACTION TIME; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; VISION; VISUAL SEARCH;

2323; 2340; 2346; ATTENTIONAL CAPTURE; DISTANCE; NON-SPATIAL FILTERING; PARAMETRICAL SALIENCE MANIPULATION; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; VISUAL SEARCH;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84879138492     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2013.04.023     Document Type: Article

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