Withdrawing attention at little or no cost: Detection and discrimination tasks

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-23

  Braun, Jochen ^a   Julesz, Bela ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; COLOR VISION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 0031611314     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03211915     Document Type: Article

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