Foreperiod and sequential effects: Theory and data

Attention and Time

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Los, Sander A ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dual process; Foreperiod; Sequential effects; Temporal attention; Trace conditioning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921259805     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199563456.003.0021     Document Type: Chapter

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