Attentional selection: A salience-based competition for representation

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1190-1198

  Mounts, Jeffrey R W ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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EID: 32644438960     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193552     Document Type: Article

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