Age-related differences in selection by visual saliency

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 75, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1382-1394

  Tsvetanov, Kamen A ^a   Mevorach, Carmel ^a   Allen, Harriet ^b   Humphreys, Glyn W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Distraction; Global and local processing; Inhibition deficit theory; Nonspatial visual attention; Saliency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; VERY ELDERLY; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885727135     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-013-0499-9     Document Type: Article

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