Attentional selection of moving objects by a serial process

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 3403-3412

  d'Avossa, Giovanni ^a   Shulman, Gordon L ^a   Snyder, Abraham Z ^a,b   Corbetta, Maurizio ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Attentional tracking; Limited capacity; Serial processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 33746294759     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.04.018     Document Type: Article

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