Masked singleton effects

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2069-2086

  Held, Björn ^a   Ansorge, Ulrich ^b,c   Müller, Hermann J ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

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EID: 78649694075     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03196684     Document Type: Article

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