Top-Down Control Over Biased Competition During Covert Spatial Orienting

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 52-63

  Awh, Edward ^a   Matsukura, Michi ^a   Serences, John T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; VISION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CUES; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOLITION;

EID: 85047691345     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.29.1.52     Document Type: Article

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