Stimulus-driven attentional capture by subliminal onset cues

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 737-748

  Schoeberl, Tobias ^a   Fuchs, Isabella ^a   Theeuwes, Jan ^b   Ansorge, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attention capture; Cueing; Subliminal perception

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIGHT; MALE; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTOMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; COLOR; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGHT; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTOMETRY; REACTION TIME; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84939415813     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-014-0802-4     Document Type: Article

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