Alertness and cognitive control: Is there a spatial attention constraint?
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1943-3921,1943-393X
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-018-1613-9