Restricted attentional capacity within but not between sensory modalities

Nature

Volumn 387, Issue 6635, 1997, Pages 808-810

  Duncan, John ^a   Martens, Sander ^b   Ward, Robert ^c  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030913091     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/42947     Document Type: Article

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