The attentional blink: Increasing target salience provides no evidence for resource depletion. A commentary on Dux, Asplund, and Marois (2008)

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 214-218

  OLivers, Christian N L ^a   Spalek, Thomas M ^b   Kawahara, Jun Ichiro ^c   di Lollo, Vincent ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; COLOR VISION; HUMAN; LEARNING; NOTE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME;

ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SERIAL LEARNING;

EID: 62649123874     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PBR.16.1.214     Document Type: Article

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