Attentional involvement in subitizing: Questioning the preattentive hypothesis

Visual Cognition

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 474-485

  Poiese, Paola ^a   Spalek, Thomas M ^b   Di Lollo, Vincent ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 42649112060     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280801969676     Document Type: Article

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