There is no such thing as attention

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue SEP, 2011, Pages

  Anderson, Britt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; Bayes; Reification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864645830     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00246     Document Type: Article

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