The Attentional Blink Provides Episodic Distinctiveness: Sparing at a Cost

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 787-807

  Wyble, Brad ^a   Bowman, Howard ^b   Nieuwenstein, Mark ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

attentional blink; computational model; temporal attention; visual attention; working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 67549093087     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013902     Document Type: Article

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