When similarity leads to sparing: Probing mechanisms underlying the attentional blink

Psychological Research

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 327-335

  Visser, Troy A W ^a   Davis, Corinne ^b   Ohan, Jeneva L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 62949215683     PISSN: 03400727     EISSN: 14302772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00426-008-0155-5     Document Type: Article

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