Attending to orientation results in an inhibitory surround in orientation space

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 30-35

  Tombu, Michael ^a   Tsotsos, John K ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; ORIENTATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; ORIENTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 40949159723     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PP.70.1.30     Document Type: Article

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