The attentional blink reveals sluggish attentional shifting in adolescents with specific language impairment

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 287-295

  Lum, Jarrad A G ^a   Conti Ramsden, Gina ^a   Lindell, Annukka K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attentional blink; Attentional shifting; Rapid processing; Specific language impairment

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYELID REFLEX; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; OBJECT RELATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DYSLEXIA; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33847664780     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2006.09.010     Document Type: Article

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