Transient covert attention and the perceived rate of flicker

Journal of Vision

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 955-965

  Montagna, Barbara ^a   Carrasco, Marissa ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Appearance; Attention; Flicker rate; Temporal vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PHENOMENOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ATTENTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33748082640     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/6.9.8     Document Type: Article

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