Spatial asymmetries in viewing and remembering scenes: Consequences of an attentional bias?

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1251-1262

  Dickinson, Christopher A ^a   Intraub, Helene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; SIZE PERCEPTION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 70349482351     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.71.6.1251     Document Type: Article

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