Temporal processes in prime-mask interaction: Assessing perceptual consequences of masked information

Advances in Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 241-255

  Scharlau, Ingrid ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Masked priming; Metacontrast; Perception of time; Perceptual latency; Visual backward masking

Indexed keywords

EID: 76649128832     PISSN: 18951171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10053-008-0028-x     Document Type: Article

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