Reward guides attention to object categories in real-world scenes

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 264-273

  Hickey, Clayton ^a,b   Kaiser, Daniel ^a   Peelen, Marius V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attention; Natural scenes; Reward; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; REWARD; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REWARD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84926354754     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0038627     Document Type: Article

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