Feature-based attention to unconscious shapes and colors

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1480-1494

  Schmidt, Filipp ^a   Schmidt, Thomas ^a  

^a Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; COLOR VISION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957679208     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.72.6.1480     Document Type: Article

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