The role of working memory in attentional capture

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• Publication year

  2005

• Venue

  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

• Publication date

  2005-08-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3758/BF03196756PMID 16447380
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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