Distractor eccentricity and its effect on selective attention

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 82-92

  Chen, Zhe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Distractor eccentricity effect; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL FIELD;

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 41749117497     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169.55.2.82     Document Type: Article

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