Can subitizing survive the attentional blink? An ERP study

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 440, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 140-144

  Xu, Xiaodong ^a   Liu, Chang ^a  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Attentional blink; Counting; P3 component; Subitizing

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 45449098041     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.05.063     Document Type: Article

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