Making Sense of Timing and Attention: Modality Effect in Timing with a Break

Timing and Time Perception

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 129-144

  Viau Quesnel, Charles ^a   Gaudreault, Rémi ^a   Ouellet, Andrée Anne ^a   Fortin, Claudette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

attention; stimulus modality; Time perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84980047598     PISSN: 2213445X     EISSN: 22134468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/22134468-00002019     Document Type: Article

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