The roles of location specificity and masking mechanisms in the attentional blink

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 798-809

  Breitmeyer, Bruno G ^a   Ehrenstein, Addie ^b   Pritchard, Kelly ^b   Hiscock, Merrill ^a   Crisan, Jill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BLINKING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BLINKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033159728     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03206898     Document Type: Article

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