Visual attention is a single, integrated resource

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1166-1173

  Pastukhov, Alexander ^a   Fischer, Laura ^a   Braun, Jochen ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Attention operating characteristic; Dual task; Limited capacity; Performance resource function; Undifferentiated resource

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 67349281379     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.04.011     Document Type: Article

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