Pupillometric evidence for the decoupling of attention from perceptual input during offline thought

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Smallwood, Jonathan ^a   Brown, Kevin S ^b   Tipper, Christine ^b   Giesbrecht, Barry ^b   Franklin, Michael S ^b   Mrazek, Michael D ^b   Carlson, Jean M ^b   Schooler, Jonathan W ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PUPIL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; ADOLESCENT; DECISION MAKING; EVOKED RESPONSE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY; THINKING;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PERCEPTION; PUPIL; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953060466     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018298     Document Type: Article

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