Salient stimuli capture attention and action

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 75, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1633-1643

  Kerzel, Dirk ^a   Schönhammer, Josef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Action; Attentional capture; Reaching; Saliency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; TOUCH; VISION;

ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84887594921     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-013-0512-3     Document Type: Article

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