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The Attentional Capture Debate: When Can We Avoid Salient Distractors and When Not? Cover

The Attentional Capture Debate: When Can We Avoid Salient Distractors and When Not?

By: Jan Theeuwes  
Open Access
|Jul 2023

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.251 | Journal eISSN: 2514-4820
Language: English
Submitted on: Jul 8, 2022
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Accepted on: Nov 20, 2022
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Published on: Jul 6, 2023
Published by: Ubiquity Press
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