Sources of interference in the attentional blink: Target-distractor similarity revisited

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 188-201

  Maki, William S ^a   Bussard, Giulia ^a   Lopez, Kellie ^a   Digby, Beth ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BLINKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; VISION;

ATTENTION; BLINKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0038321767     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194794     Document Type: Article

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