Great expectations: Top-down attention modulates the costs of clutter and eccentricity

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 403-419

  Steelman, Kelly S ^a,c   Mccarley, Jason S ^a   Wickens, Christopher D ^b  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Display design; Eccentricity; Expectancy; Models of attention; Salience; Top down control; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ATTENTION; DATA DISPLAY; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84890566947     PISSN: 1076898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0034546     Document Type: Article

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