Attention and spatial stimulus coding in the Simon task: A rejoinder to van der Lubbe and Abrahamse (2010)

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 265-268

  Hommel, Bernhard ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Compatibility; Simon effect

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ATTENTION; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79952740149     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2010.10.002     Document Type: Article

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