Processing demand modulates the effects of spatial attention on the judged duration of a brief stimulus

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1229-1238

  Chen, Zhe ^a,b   O'Neill, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; REACTION TIME; TIME PERCEPTION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMAN; JUDGMENT; MALE; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 0035488390     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194536     Document Type: Article

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