Automatic and voluntary focusing of attention

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 935-952

  Turatto, Massimo ^a   Benso, Francesco ^a   Facoetti, Andrea ^a   Galfano, Giovanni ^a   Mascetti, Gian Gastone ^a   Umiltà, Carlo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUTOMATISM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AUTOMATISM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SIZE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0034217935     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03212079     Document Type: Article

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