Attention orienting and the time course of perceptual decisions: Response time distributions with masked and unmasked displays

Vision Research

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1297-1320

  Smith, Philip L ^a   Ratcliff, Roger ^b   Wolfgang, Bradley J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DIFFUSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SIGNAL DETECTION; VISION; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CUES; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 1842505406     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2004.01.002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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