Mere prsence of distractors: Another determining factor for the attentional blink

Japanese Psychological Research

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 140-151

  Kawahara, Jun Ichiro ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Attentional blink; Distractors; Rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) paradigm; Task switching

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041323230     PISSN: 00215368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-5884.t01-1-00042     Document Type: Article

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