The effects of transient attention on spatial resolution and the size of the attentional cue

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 104-113

  Yeshurun, Yaffa ^a   Carrasco, Marisa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; PERCEPTION;

ATTENTION; CUES; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; SIZE PERCEPTION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 38549121255     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PP.70.1.104     Document Type: Article

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