How the brain blinks: Towards a neurocognitive model of the attentional blink

Psychological Research

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 425-435

  Hommel, Bernhard ^a   Kessler, Klaus ^b   Schmitz, Frank ^b   Gross, Joachim ^b   Akyürek, Elkan ^a   Shapiro, Kimron ^c   Schnitzler, Alfons ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BETA RHYTHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL REFRACTORY PERIOD; RESPONSE TIME;

ATTENTION; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; REFRACTORY PERIOD, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 33750009614     PISSN: 03400727     EISSN: 14302772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00426-005-0009-3     Document Type: Article

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