Modulations of the processing of line discontinuities under selective attention conditions?

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 67-88

  Giersch, Anne ^a   Fahle, Manfred ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; HUMAN; RANDOMIZATION; REACTION TIME;

ATTENTION; HUMANS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0036358873     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194558     Document Type: Article

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