Visual Attention: Control, Representation, and Time Course

Annual Review of Psychology

Volumn 48, Issue , 1997, Pages 269-297

  Egeth, Howard E ^a   Yantis, Steven ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Cognition; Human subjects; Perception; Psychophysics; Reaction time; Vision; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; ORIENTATION; REACTION TIME; REVIEW; VISION;

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030636084     PISSN: 00664308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.psych.48.1.269     Document Type: Article

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