Spatial attention: Different mechanisms for central and peripheral temporal precues?

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1534-1548

  Lu, Zhong Lin ^b   Dosher, Barbara Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REACTION TIME; TIME PERCEPTION;

ATTENTION; CUES; FEEDBACK; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 0034304214     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.26.5.1534     Document Type: Article

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