Attention attenuates metacontrast masking

Cognition

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 135-149

  Boyer, Jennifer ^a   Ro, Tony ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Awareness; Human; Vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; COGNITION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MASKING; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISIBILITY; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34247238756     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2006.06.001     Document Type: Article

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