How does attention select and track spatially extended objects? New effects of attentional concentration and amplification

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 461-476

  Alvarez, George A ^a,c,d   Scholl, Brian J ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Multiple object tracking; Object based attention

Indexed keywords

EID: 28744443570     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-3445.134.4.461     Document Type: Article

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