Visual and auditory accessory stimulus offset and the Simon effect

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1948-1964

  Nishimura, Akio ^a   Yokosawa, Kazuhiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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EID: 77958487989     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.72.7.1948     Document Type: Article

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