The role of perceptual load in action affordance by ignored objects

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1122-1127

  Murphy, Sandra ^a,b   van Velzen, José ^a   de Fockert, Jan W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Irrelevant distractors; Object affordances; Visual selective attention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870196147     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-012-0299-6     Document Type: Article

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