Role of Gestalt grouping in selective attention: Evidence from the Stroop task

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 69, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1305-1314

  Lamers, Martijn J M ^a,b   Roelofs, Ardi ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

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EID: 36749074890     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03192947     Document Type: Article

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