Attend to it now or lose it forever: Selective attention, metacontrast masking, and object substitution

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1028-1038

  Tata, Matthew S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; PERCEPTION; RANDOMIZATION; VISION;

ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CUES; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; RANDOM ALLOCATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036777563     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194754     Document Type: Article

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