Modulating attentional load affects numerosity estimation: Evidence against a pre-attentive subitizing mechanism

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Vetter, Petra ^a,b   Butterworth, Brian ^a,b   Bahrami, Bahador ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL FUNCTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL PROCESSES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 54749113105     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003269     Document Type: Article

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