Bilateral attentional advantage on elementary visual tasks

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 691-701

  Reardon, Kristin M ^a,b   Kelly, Jenna G ^a   Matthews, Nestor ^a  

^a DENISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Crowding; Detection; Hemifield; Orientation discrimination

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; EYE DOMINANCE; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 64249099713     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.01.005     Document Type: Article

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