Visual attention amplifies response priming of pointing movements to color targets

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 443-455

  Schmidt, Thomas ^a   Seydell, Anna ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; REACTION TIME; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 45549090541     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PP.70.3.443     Document Type: Article

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