Attention and spatial selection: Electrophysiological evidence for modulation by perceptual load

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 175-186

  Handy, Todd C ^a   Mangun, George R ^b  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EVOKED RESPONSE; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033628793     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03212070     Document Type: Article

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