Attentional and perceptual factors affecting the attentional blink for faces and objects

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 818-830

  Landau, Ayelet N ^a   Bentin, Shlomo ^a,b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention resources; Attentional blink; Face perception; Repetition blindness

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; BLINKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE FIXATION; FACE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RECALL; VISION;

ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; BLINKING; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 58149127376     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.34.4.818     Document Type: Article

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