Facilitative and inhibitory effects of location and frequency cues: Evidence of a modulation in perceptual sensitivity

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 438-444

  Mondor, Todd A ^a   Breau, Lynn M ^b  

^a MOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; HEARING; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; REACTION TIME; TIME;

ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CUES; HUMANS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033111395     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03211964     Document Type: Article

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