Properties of spatial attention in conscious and nonconscious visual information processing

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 426-431

  Tapia, Evelina ^a,b   Breitmeyer, Bruno G ^a   Broyles, Elizabeth C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Conscious processing; Flanker task; Form priming; Metacontrast; Nonconscious processing; Space based attention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; VISION; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ATTENTION; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79955467514     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2010.07.001     Document Type: Article

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