The effect of spatial competition between object-level representations of target and mask on object substitution masking

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2528-2541

  Guest, Duncan ^a   Gellatly, Angus ^b   Pilling, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

^b OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME;

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 81755188376     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-011-0196-5     Document Type: Article

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