Voluntary attention increases perceived spatial frequency

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1471-1479

  Abrams, Jared ^a   Barbot, Antoine ^a   Carrasco, Marisa ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77957671475     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.72.6.1471     Document Type: Article

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