Symbolic control of attention: Tracking its temporal dynamics

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 385-391

  Hommel, Bernhard ^a   Akyürek, Elkan G ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CONFLICT; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SYMBOLISM;

ATTENTION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; SYMBOLISM;

EID: 64749099406     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.71.2.385     Document Type: Article

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