Does attention accompany the conscious awareness of both location and identity of an object?

Psyche (Pasadena)

Volumn 14, Issue 2008, 2008, Pages

  Ghorashi, Shahab ^a   Jefferies, Lisa N ^a   Kawahara, Jun Ichiro ^b   Watanabe, Katsumi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Attention; Attentional blink; Consciousness; Identification; Localization; Shooting line illusion; Spatial attention

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956420184     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1039723X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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