Selective attention and the perception of an attended nontarget object

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1493-1509

  Chen, Zhe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Attention; Distractor processing; Perception of an attended nontarget object; Selection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; HUMAN; REACTION TIME; VISION;

ATTENTION; HUMANS; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 32844455783     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.31.6.1493     Document Type: Article

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