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Abrupt visual onsets and selective attention: evidence from visual search.

S. Yantis, J. Jonides

1984.10.1JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-HUMAN PERCEPTION AND PERFORMANCE

DOI: 10.1037//0096-1523.10.5.601

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It is hypothesized that an abrupt onset in a visual display would capture visual attention, giving this item a processing advantage over items lacking an abrupt leading edge, and designed a second experiment to ensure that this finding was due to attentional factors rather than to sensory or perceptual ones.

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YANTIS, S.; JONIDES, J. Abrupt visual onsets and selective attention: Evidence from visual search. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-HUMAN PERCEPTION AND PERFORMANCE, 1984, 10 5: 601–21.