Involuntary attentional shifts due to orientation differences

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 651-665

  Joseph, Julian S ^a,b   Optican, Lance M ^a  

^a NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; RECEPTIVE FIELD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0030194683     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03213098     Document Type: Article

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