Citation

Flowers JH, Polansky ML, Kerl S. J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 1981; 7(1): 157-166.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1981, American Psychological Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

6452493

Abstract

Highly familiar letter sequences (English words) in noncued portions of a tachistoscopic display were shown to substantially reduce accuracy of partial report. These findings suggest that in addition to facilitating character scanning, familiarity may operate in automatically directing attentional resources to a particular spatial region of a display. Such attentional capture may be disruptive if the material to be reported is presented at another location.

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