Delayed masking and the auditory attentional blink: A test for retrieval competition and bottleneck models

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 182-190

  Vachon, François ^a   Tremblay, Sébastien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attentional Blink; Audition; Auditory Masking; Bottleneck; Divided Attention; Perceptual Interference; Processing Limitations; Selective Attention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BLINKING; HEARING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; TIME;

ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BLINKING; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOLOGY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33747834414     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169.53.3.182     Document Type: Article

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