When scenes speak louder than words: Verbal encoding does not mediate the relationship between scene meaning and visual attention.
The complexity of the visual world requires that we constrain visual attention and prioritize some regions of the scene for attention over others. The current study investigated whether verbal encoding processes influence how attention is allocated in scenes. Specifically, we asked whether the advan...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 48; no. 7; pp. 1181 - 1196 |
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