Subliminal attentional modulation in crowding condition

Vision Research

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 839-844

  Montaser Kouhsari, Leila ^a,b   Rajimehr, Reza ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS IPM   (Iran)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Awareness; Crowding; Illusory line; Subliminal attentional modulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CROWDING; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILLUSION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION;

EID: 11844262059     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2004.10.020     Document Type: Article

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