Vision and audition do not share attentional resources in sustained tasks

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue APR, 2011, Pages

  Arrighi, Roberto ^a,b,c   Lunardi, Roy ^a   Burr, David ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Audio visual integration; Cross modal perception; Sustained attention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864513404     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00056     Document Type: Article

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