How priming in visual search affects response time distributions: Analyses with ex-Gaussian fits

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 76, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2199-2211

  Kristjánsson, Árni ^a   Jóhannesson, Ómar I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Attention; Ex Gaussian function; Priming; RT distributions; Visual Search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; REPETITION PRIMING; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REACTION TIME; REPETITION PRIMING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84930508650     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-014-0735-y     Document Type: Article

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