Crossmodal links between vision and touch in covert endogenous spatial attention

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1298-1319

  Spence, Charles ^a   Pavani, Francesco ^b   Driver, Jon ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REINFORCEMENT; TOUCH; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION; TOUCH; VISION;

EID: 0034244102     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.26.4.1298     Document Type: Article

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