Two attentional deficits in serial target search: The visual attentional blink and an amodal task-switch deficit

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 979-992

  Potter, Mary C ^a   Banks, Bradley S ^a   Muckenhoupt, Margaret ^a,c   Chun, Marvin M ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; NOTE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; SERIAL LEARNING; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032116848     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.24.4.979     Document Type: Article

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