Judgments of the duration of visually marked empty time intervals: Linking perceived duration and sensitivity

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 319-330

  Grondin, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

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

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0031993068     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03206040     Document Type: Article

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