Templates for Rejection: Configuring Attention to Ignore Task-Irrelevant Features.
Theories of attention are compatible with the idea that we can bias attention to avoid selecting objects that have known nontarget features. Although this may underlie several existing phenomena, the explicit guidance of attention away from known nontargets has yet to be demonstrated. Here we show t...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception & Performance Vol. 38; no. 3; pp. 580 - 585 |
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American Psychological Association
Jun2012
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