Deployment of spatial attention to words in central and peripheral vision

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 578-590

  Ducrot, Stéphanie ^a   Grainger, Jonathan ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

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EID: 34547838125     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193915     Document Type: Article

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