Your divided attention, please! The maintenance of multiple attentional control sets over distinct regions in space

Cognition

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 295-303

  Adamo, Maha ^a   Pun, Carson ^a   Pratt, Jay ^a   Ferber, Susanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attentional control sets; Multiple foci of attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 40649127711     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.07.003     Document Type: Article

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