Feature-based attention: It is all bottom-up priming

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1628, 2013, Pages

  Theeuwes, Jan ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Feature based attention; Priming; Selective attention; Top down control

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; IMAGE PROCESSING; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; VISUAL ANALYSIS; VISUALIZATION;

ATTENTION; FEATURE-BASED ATTENTION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMING, TOP-DOWN CONTROL; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; REPETITION PRIMING; REVIEW; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; VISION;

FEATURE-BASED ATTENTION; PRIMING, TOP-DOWN CONTROL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION;

ATTENTION; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REPETITION PRIMING; RESEARCH DESIGN; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84896590688     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0055     Document Type: Article

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