Capturing attention when attention "blinks"

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 598-612

  Wee, Serena ^a   Chua, Fook K ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BLINKING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; TIME; VISION;

ATTENTION; BLINKING; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 2642584607     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.30.3.598     Document Type: Article

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