Much Dilution Little Load in Lavie and Torralbo's (2010) Response: A Reply

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1665-1668

  Tsal, Yehoshua ^a   Benoni, Hanna ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dilution; Perceptual load; Selective attention; Visual attention; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650093901     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021907     Document Type: Article

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