Action words: Studying the involuntary capture of attention of action words

This study’s aim was to examine how attention is affected by action words. Twenty participants performed a cross‐modal oddball task with a standard sound (a sine wave tone) and two recorded speech sounds as novel sounds (stop and press). The result showed that novel sounds captured attention and inc...

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Main Authors: Averin, Emina, Valderrama, Majorie
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Umeå universitet, Institutionen för psykologi 2011
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-51974