Selective attention warps spatial representation: Parallel but opposing effects on attended versus inhibited objects

Psychological Science

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1600-1608

  Liverence, Brandon M ^a   Scholl, Brian J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

attention; multiple object tracking; spatial perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 83055181949     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797611422543     Document Type: Article

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