Evidence for suppressive mechanisms in attentional selection: Feature singletons produce inhibitory surrounds

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 969-983

  Mounts, Jeffrey R W ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; RECEPTIVE FIELD;

ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0034223321     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03212082     Document Type: Article

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