Practice begets the second target: task repetition and the attentional blink effect

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 176, Issue , 2009, Pages 123-134

  Nakatani, Chie ^a   Baijal, Shruti ^b   van Leeuwen, Cees ^a  

^a RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD   (India)

Author keywords

event related potentials; RSVP; selective attention; visual masking; working memory

Indexed keywords

ATTENTIONAL BLINK; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MASKING; WORKING MEMORY;

ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 69449105978     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(09)17608-2     Document Type: Review

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