The visual attentional blink reflects constraints on temporal visual processing, not just a lapse of visual memory

Clinical and Experimental Optometry

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 282-289

  Gillard Crewther, Sheila ^a   Lawson, Murray L ^a   Bello, Katrina ^a   Crewther, David P ^b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attentional blink; Executive function; Short term memory; Visuo spatial memory; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BLINKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MEMORY; MENTAL FUNCTION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BLINKING; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MEMORY; MENTAL PROCESSES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34547261722     PISSN: 08164622     EISSN: 14440938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1444-0938.2007.00160.x     Document Type: Article

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