Why does the effect of short-SOA exogenous cuing on simple RT depend on the number of display locations?

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 819-824

  Mordkoff, J Toby ^a,d   Halterman, Rose ^a   Chen, Peggy ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^c KESSLER FOUNDATION   (United States)

^d University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; HUMAN; LEARNING; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

ATTENTION; CUES; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBABILITY LEARNING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 50949087403     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PBR.15.4.819     Document Type: Article

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