Direct parameter specification of an attention shift: Evidence from perceptual latency priming

Vision Research

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1351-1363

  Scharlau, Ingrid ^a   Ansorge, Ulrich ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Latency; Masking; Priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0038066379     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(03)00141-X     Document Type: Article

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