Task switching mediates the attentional blink even without backward masking

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 339-351

  Kawahara, Jun Ichiro ^a   Zuvic, Samantha M ^b   Enns, James T ^b   Di Lollo, Vincent ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BLINKING; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; PERCEPTION;

ATTENTION; BLINKING; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING;

EID: 0037493658     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194565     Document Type: Article

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