Does attention move or spread during mental curve tracing?

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 374-388

  Crundall, David ^a   Dewhurst, Richard ^a   Underwood, Geoffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; REVERSAL LEARNING;

EID: 42949177640     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PP.70.2.374     Document Type: Article

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