The effect of spatial attention on invisible stimuli

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 71, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1507-1513

  Shin, Kilho ^a   Stolte, Moritz ^b   Chong, Sang Chul ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EGO DEVELOPMENT; FACE; HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SEX DIFFERENCE; VISION; VISUAL FIELD;

ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FACE; FIGURAL AFTEREFFECT; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SEX FACTORS; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 73449125508     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.71.7.1507     Document Type: Article

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