Seeing or hearing? Perceptual independence, modality confusions, and crossmodal congruity effects with focused and divided attention

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 568-574

  Larsen, Axel ^a   McIlhagga, William ^b   Baert, Jeroen ^c   Bundesen, Claus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0037780067     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194583     Document Type: Article

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