Beyond the Attentional Blink: Visual Masking by Object Substitution

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1454-1466

  Giesbrecht, Barry ^a   Di Lollo, Vincent ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TIME;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032177719     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.24.5.1454     Document Type: Article

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