Is All Sparing Created Equal? Comparing Lag-1 Sparing and Extended Sparing in Temporal Object Perception

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1527-1541

  Visser, Troy A W ^a   Ohan, Jeneva L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attentional blink; Sparing; Task switching

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; REACTION TIME;

ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME;

EID: 80053986411     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023508     Document Type: Article

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