A unified attentional bottleneck in the human brain

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 33, 2011, Pages 13426-13431

  Tombu, Michael N ^a   Asplund, Christopher L ^a,b   Dux, Paul E ^a,c   Godwin, Douglass ^a   Martin, Justin W ^a   Marois, René ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attention; Attentional blink; Psychological refractory period

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN REGION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INSULA; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRUM; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENTAL PROCESSES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052014057     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1103583108     Document Type: Article

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