Attentional inhibition mediates inattentional blindness

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 636-643

  Thakral, Preston P ^a   Slotnick, Scott D ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Spatial attention; Task accuracy; Visual awareness

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL INHIBITION; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INATTENTIONAL BLINDNESS; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77951649428     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2010.02.002     Document Type: Article

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