The role of attention in subitizing: Is the magical number 1?

Visual Cognition

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 463-473

  Egeth, Howard E ^a   Leonard, Carly J ^a   Palomares, Melanie ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BLINKING; COGNITION; DISTRACTIBILITY; EYELID REFLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 42649086037     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280801937939     Document Type: Article

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