Attentional interference at small spatial separations

Vision Research

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 71-86

  Bahcall, Dan O ^a   Kowler, Eileen ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Attentional window; Center surround organization; Letter recognition; Spatial attention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0032889996     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(98)00090-X     Document Type: Article

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