All-or-none bottleneck versus capacity sharing accounts of the psychological refractory period phenomenon

Psychological Research

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 274-286

  Tombu, Mike ^a   Jolicœur, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; RESPONSE TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; REFRACTORY PERIOD, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 19044381147     PISSN: 03400727     EISSN: 14302772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00426-002-0101-x     Document Type: Article

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