Examining task difficulty and the time course of inhibition of return: Detecting perceptually degraded targets

Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 90-98

  Castel, Alan D ^a   Pratt, Jay ^a   Chasteen, Alison L ^a   Scialfa, Charles T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; METHODOLOGY; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUE; TIME; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 23944433459     PISSN: 11961961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/h0087464     Document Type: Article

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