Individuals differ in the attentional blink: Mental speed and intra-subject stability matter

Intelligence

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 27-35

  Klein, Christoph ^a,b   Arend, Isabel C ^c   Beauducel, Andre ^d   Shapiro, Kimron L ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attentional blink; Intra subject variability; Practice effects; Psychometric intelligence; Reliability; Set shifting; Stability; Sternberg paradigm; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651279992     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2010.11.004     Document Type: Article

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