A dual-stage two-phase model of selective attention

Psychological Review

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 759-784

  Hübner, Ronald ^a   Steinhauser, Marco ^a   Lehle, Carola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diffusion process; Early selection; Flanker task; Late selection; Selective attention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REACTION TIME; STROOP TEST; VISION;

ATTENTION; COGNITION; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; STROOP TEST; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77955313023     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019471     Document Type: Article

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