Transient spatial attention and the perceived duration of brief visual events

Visual Cognition

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 826-848

  Yeshurun, Yaffa ^a   Marom, Golan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 47249147626     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280701588022     Document Type: Article

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