Competition and Sharing of Processing Resources in Visual Discrimination

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1603-1616

  Magnussen, Svein ^a   Greenlee, Mark W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031302801     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.23.6.1603     Document Type: Article

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