Developing a new quantitative account of backward masking

Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 198-226

  Francis, Gregory ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Eccentricity; Metacontrast; Practice

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

ATTENTION; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING;

EID: 0037984273     PISSN: 00100285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0285(02)00521-2     Document Type: Article

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