Don’t let it distract you: how information about the availability of reward affects attentional selection

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 79, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 2275-2298

  Failing, Michel ^a   Theeuwes, Jan ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attention; Attentional capture; Incentive motivation; Reward; Value driven attentional capture

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; REACTION TIME; REWARD; YOUNG ADULT;

ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; REACTION TIME; REWARD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85025467812     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-017-1376-8     Document Type: Article

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