Shifting spatial attention makes you flip: Exogenous visual attention triggers perceptual alternations during binocular rivalry

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1237-1243

  Paffen, Chris L E ^a   Van der Stigchel, Stefan ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; NERVE CELL NETWORK; OCCIPITAL LOBE; ORIENTATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME;

ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; NERVE NET; OCCIPITAL LOBE; ORIENTATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; VISION DISPARITY;

EID: 77957665811     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.72.5.1237     Document Type: Article

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