Selective attention versus selection for action: Negative priming is not the result of distractors being unattended

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 890-896

  Joordens, Steve ^a   Betancourt, Itanni ^a   Spalek, Thomas M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 33845697518     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193352     Document Type: Article

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