The effects of cross-sensory attentional demand on subitizing and on mapping number onto space

Vision Research

Volumn 74, Issue , 2012, Pages 102-109

  Anobile, Giovanni ^a   Turi, Marco ^a,b   Cicchini, Guido Marco ^c   Burr, David C ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attention; Audition; Cross sensory; Numerosity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BAYES THEOREM; CENTRAL TENDENCY; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS SENSORY ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MAPPING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TOUCH; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84869499848     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2012.06.005     Document Type: Article

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