Intentions determine the effect of invisible metacontrast-masked primes: Evidence for top-down contingencies in a peripheral cuing task

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 762-777

  Ansorge, Ulrich ^a   Neumann, Odmar ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENTION; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME;

EID: 24944532031     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.31.4.762     Document Type: Article

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