Personal names do not always survive the attentional blink: Behavioral evidence for a flexible locus of selection

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1378-1388

  Giesbrecht, Barry ^a   Sy, Jocelyn L ^a   Lewis, Megan K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attentional blink; Selective attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NOMENCLATURE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION;

ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NAMES; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349233069     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.02.013     Document Type: Article

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