The attentional blink is diminished for targets that form coherent semantic categories

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 321-328

  Tibboel, Helen ^a   De Houwer, Jan ^a   Spruyt, Adriaan ^a   Crombez, Geert ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Attention; Attentional blink; Coherence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; VOCABULARY;

EID: 79952619891     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2010.12.006     Document Type: Article

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