The effect of visual salience on memory-based choices

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 481-487

  Pooresmaeili, Arezoo ^a   Bach, Dominik R ^a,b,c   Dolan, Raymond J ^a,b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bottom up attention; Choice; Memory; Saliency

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL SALIENCE; WORKING MEMORY;

BOTTOM-UP ATTENTION; CHOICE; MEMORY; SALIENCY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84893365887     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00068.2013     Document Type: Article

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