Priming and the guidance by visual and categorical templates in visual search

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Wilschut, Anna ^a   Theeuwes, Jan ^a   Olivers, Christian N L ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cueing; Priming; SOA; Template; Visual search; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897634991     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00148     Document Type: Article

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