The simultaneous type, serial token model of temporal attention and working memory

Psychological Review

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 38-70

  Bowman, Howard ^a   Wyble, Brad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attentional blink; Neural networks; Temporal attention; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BLINKING; HUMAN; MEMORY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; TIME;

ATTENTION; BLINKING; HUMANS; MEMORY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NERVE NET; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33846316000     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.114.1.38     Document Type: Article

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