Split Attention as Part of a Flexible Attentional System for Complex Scenes: Comment on Jans, Peters, and De Weerd (2010)

Psychological Review

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 685-695

  Cave, Kyle R ^a   Bush, William S ^a   Taylor, Thalia G G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

inhibition; interference; spatial selection; split attention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; VISION;

ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77953143272     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019083     Document Type: Article

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