Bimodal and trimodal multisensory enhancement: Effects of stimulus onset and intensity on reaction time

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1388-1404

  Diederich, Adele ^a   Colonius, Hans ^b  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; VISION;

ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 17944373253     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03195006     Document Type: Article

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