Out of sight, out of mind: The attentional blink can eliminate synaesthetic colours

Cognition

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 320-328

  Rich, Anina N ^a   Mattingley, Jason B ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attentional blink; Priming; Synaesthesia; Synaesthetic congruency; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; GRATING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; AWARENESS; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 76349117454     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.10.003     Document Type: Article

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