Spatial attention in early vision

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-20

  Theeuwes, Jan ^a   Kramer, Arthur F ^b   Atchley, Paul ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Spatial cueing; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; REACTION TIME; VISION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CUES; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION; VISION;

EID: 0345859467     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-6918(00)00066-4     Document Type: Article

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