Does feature similarity facilitate attentional selection?

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2128-2143

  Festman, Yariv ^a   Braun, Jochen ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 78649694759     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03196689     Document Type: Article

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