Modality-specific and amodal sources of interference in the attentional blink

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1000-1015

  Vachon, François ^a   Tremblay, Sébastien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; HEARING; HUMAN; MENTAL FUNCTION; PERCEPTION; VISION;

ATTENTIONAL BLINK; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MENTAL PROCESSES; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 50249090184     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PP.70.6.1000     Document Type: Article

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