When cross-modal spatial attention fails

Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 192-197

  Prime, David J ^a   McDonald, John J ^b   Green, Jessica ^b   Ward, Lawrence M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cross modal attention; Implicit spacial discrimination; Orthogonal cuing; Spatial attention; Visual cuing of auditory attention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; REACTION TIME; VISION;

ATTENTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 54549101263     PISSN: 11961961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1196-1961.62.3.192     Document Type: Article

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