Random reward priming is task-contingent: The robustness of the 1-trial reward priming effect

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue APR, 2014, Pages

  Ásgeirsson, Árni G ^a   Kristjánsson, Árni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Capture; Feature priming; Repetition priming; Reward; Visual attention; Visual search; Visual selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899671058     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00309     Document Type: Article

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