The lower visual search efficiency for conjunctions is due to noise and not serial attentional processing

Psychological Science

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 111-118

  Eckstein, Miguel P ^a,b  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 0041064976     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9280.00020     Document Type: Article

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