Scale of attentional focus in visual search

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 837-859

  Greenwood, P M ^a   Parasuraman, Raja ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NON-PROGRAMMATIC; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; VISION;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTENTION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033159597     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03206901     Document Type: Article

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