Too much control can hurt: A threaded cognition model of the attentional blink

Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-29

  Taatgen, Niels A ^a,b   Juvina, Ion ^a   Schipper, Marc ^b,c   Borst, Jelmer P ^b   Martens, Sander ^b,c  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attentional blink; Cognitive control; Cognitive model; Multi tasking

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MEMORY; NETHERLANDS; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; COGNITION; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MEMORY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NETHERLANDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 67549123300     PISSN: 00100285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2008.12.002     Document Type: Article

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