Spatial probability aids visual stimulus discrimination

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Druker, Michael ^a   Anderson, Britt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; Perception; Reaction time; Vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PROBABILITY; REACTION TIME; SCREENING; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 79953004756     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2010.00063     Document Type: Article

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