The ignoring paradox: Cueing distractor features leads first to selection, then to inhibition of to-be-ignored items

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Attention, perception & psychophysics

• Publication date

  2012-08-15

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.3758/s13414-012-0358-0PMID 22893004
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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