Dispositional affect predicts temporal attention costs in the attentional blink paradigm

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1431-1438

  MacLean, Mary H ^a   Arnell, Karen M ^a   Busseri, Michael A ^a  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Affect; Attention; Attentional blink; Diffuse; Negative; Positive

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; COGNITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL SUMMATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL SUMMATION;

EID: 78649718091     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930903417897     Document Type: Article

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