Within-modality and cross-modality attentional blinks in a simple discrimination task

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 54-61

  Hein, Grit ^a   Parr, Alice ^a   Duncan, John ^a  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BLINKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BLINKING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 33646441937     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193655     Document Type: Article

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