On the relationship between flanker interference and localized attentional interference

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 102-109

  McCarley, Jason S ^a   Mounts, Jeffrey R W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Biased competition; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; VISION; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CUES; HUMANS; REACTION TIME; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 41949113511     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2007.10.005     Document Type: Article

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