The Capacity of Audiovisual Integration Is Limited to One Item

Psychological Science

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 345-351

  van der Burg, Erik ^a,b   Awh, Edward ^c   Olivers, Christian N L ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

attention; capacity; multisensory processing; vision

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875012932     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797612452865     Document Type: Article

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