Experimental effects and individual differences in linear mixed models: Estimating the relationship between spatial, object, and attraction effects in visual attention

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 1, Issue JAN, 2011, Pages

  Kliegl, Reinhold ^a   Wei, Ping ^b,c   Dambacher, Michael ^a   Yan, Ming ^a,c   Zhou, Xiaolin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Individual differences; Linear mixed model; Object based attention; Spatial attention; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865801553     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00238     Document Type: Article

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