Value-modulated oculomotor capture by task-irrelevant stimuli is a consequence of early competition on the saccade map

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 78, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 2226-2240

  Pearson, Daniel ^a   Osborn, Raphaella ^a   Whitford, Thomas J ^a   Failing, Michel ^b   Theeuwes, Jan ^b   Le Pelley, Mike E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attention in learning; Attentional capture; Eye movements and visual attention

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; REWARD; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; REWARD; SACCADES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84968607764     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-016-1135-2     Document Type: Article

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