Further evidence for the spread of attention during contour grouping: A reply to Crundall, Dewhurst, and Underwood (2008)

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 849-862

  Roelfsema, Pieter R ^a,b   Houtkamp, Roos ^a,c   Korjoukov, Ilia ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; HUMAN;

ATTENTION; AWARENESS; HUMANS;

EID: 77955284773     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.72.3.849     Document Type: Article

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