Locus of the intensity effect in simple reaction time tasks

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 69, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1334-1343

  Jaśkowski, Piotr ^a   Kurczewska, Marta ^b   Nowik, Agnteszka ^c   Van Der Lubbe, Rob H J ^d   Verleger, Rolf ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND MANAGEMENT   (Poland)

^b ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

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EID: 36749051636     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03192950     Document Type: Article

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