Failure of the extended contingent attentional capture account in multimodal settings

Sudden changes in our environment like sound bursts or light flashes are thought to automatically attract our attention thereby affecting responses to subsequent targets, although an alternative view (the contingent attentional capture account) holds that stimuli only capture our attention when they...

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Main Authors: Rob H.J. Van der Lubbe, Jurjen Van der Helden
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw 2006-01-01
Series:Advances in Cognitive Psychology
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Online Access:http://ac-psych.org/?id=2&rok=2006&issue=4#article_29