The devil is in the detail: A constructionist account of repetition blindness

Dynamic Cognitive Processes

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 101-130

  Whittlesea, Bruce W A ^a   Hughes, Andrea D ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

activation; attribution; inhibition; Repetition blindness

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646350328     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/4-431-27431-6_6     Document Type: Chapter

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