Attentional templates regulate competitive interactions among attended visual objects

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 209-217

  Mounts, Jeffrey R W ^a   McCarley, Jason S ^b   Terech, Andrew M ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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EID: 34250814511     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193743     Document Type: Article

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