Selective target processing: Perceptual load or distractor salience?

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 876-885

  Eltiti, Stacy ^a   Wallace, Denise ^a   Fox, Elaine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 27844567158     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193540     Document Type: Review

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