Object-based attention: Sensory modulation or priority setting?

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 41-51

  Shomstein, Sarah ^a   Yantis, Steven ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; HUMAN; RANDOMIZATION; REACTION TIME;

ATTENTION; CUES; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; HUMANS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0036372114     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194556     Document Type: Article

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