Target-directed visual attention is a prerequisite for action-specific perception

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 285-289

  Cañal Bruland, Rouwen ^a   Zhu, Frank F ^b   der Kamp, John van ^a,b   Masters, Rich S W ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Action; Perception; Performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952619014     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2010.12.001     Document Type: Article

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