Implied body action directs spatial attention

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1437-1443

  Gervais, Will M ^a,b   Reed, Catherine L ^a,c   Beall, Paula M ^a   Roberts Jr , Ralph J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

ATTENTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957679597     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.72.6.1437     Document Type: Article

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