On measuring selective attention to an expected sensory modality

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 389-403

  Spence, Charles ^a,c   Driver, Jon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; REACTION TIME; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031110369     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03211906     Document Type: Article

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