A quick visual mind can be a slow auditory mind: Individual differences in attentional selection across modalities

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 33-40

  Martens, Sander ^a,b   Johnson, Addie ^a   Bolle, Martje ^a   Borst, Jelmer ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attentional blink; Auditory modality; Individual differences; Selective attention; Visual modality

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; BRAIN CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LEARNING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SERIAL LEARNING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60749134996     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169.56.1.33     Document Type: Article

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