Individual differences in the attentional blink: The important role of irrelevant information

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 18-26

  Martens, Sander ^a   Valchev, Nikola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attentional blink; Attentional capture; Attentional selection visual attention; Contingent capture; Distractor interference; Individual differences

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60749103349     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169.56.1.18     Document Type: Article

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