Templates for rejection: Configuring attention to ignore task-irrelevant features.
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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 that observers can use feature cues (i.e., color) to bias attention away from nontarget items duri...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1939-1277,0096-1523
DOI: 10.1037/a0027885