The role of attention in subitizing

Cognition

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 82-104

  Railo, Henry ^a   Koivisto, Mika ^a   Revonsuo, Antti ^a,b   Hannula, Minna M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SKÖVDE   (Sweden)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Enumeration; Inattentional blindness; Subitizing

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL CONCENTRATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

EID: 40649112913     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.08.004     Document Type: Article

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