Intrusive effects of semantic information on visual selective attention

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 78, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 2066-2078

  Malcolm, George L ^a   Rattinger, Michelle ^b   Shomstein, Sarah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Scene processing; Semantic information; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84977119254     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-016-1156-x     Document Type: Article

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