Top-down effects of semantic knowledge in visual search are modulated by cognitive but not perceptual load.

Moores, Laiti, and Chelazzi (2003) found semantic interference from associate competitors during visual object search, demonstrating the existence of top-down semantic influences on the deployment of attention to objects. We examined whether effects of semantically related competitors (same-category...

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Main Authors: Belke, E, Humphreys, G, Watson, D, Meyer, A, Telling, A
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2008