Individual differences in recovery time from attentional capture

Psychological Science

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 361-368

  Fukuda, Keisuke ^a   Vogel, Edward K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

attentional capture; individual differences; working memory capacity

Indexed keywords

APTITUDE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; COLOR VISION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LONG TERM MEMORY; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

APTITUDE; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 79954485355     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797611398493     Document Type: Article

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