Attentional blink: An internal traffic jam?

Proceedings of ICCM 2007 - 8th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 91-96

  Taatgen, Niels A ^a   Juvina, Ion ^a   Herd, Seth ^b   Jilk, David ^c   Martens, Sander ^d  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c eCortex Inc   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ACT R; Cognitive Control; Leabra; Multi tasking

Indexed keywords

ATTENTIONAL BLINKS; COGNITIVE CONTROL; COGNITIVE MODEL; CONTROL STATE; TRAFFIC JAMS;

TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

EID: 67549105325     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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