The distribution of attention within objects in multiple-object scenes: Prioritization by spatial probabilities and a center bias

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 70, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1185-1196

  Feria, Cary S ^a  

^a SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; ROTATION; VISION;

ATTENTION; HUMANS; ROTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 55449107839     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PP.70.7.1185     Document Type: Article

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